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Four-year-old child drowned in neighbour's backyard pool: Ottawa police

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Ottawa police reported that a four-year-old child drowned in a neighbor's backyard pool in Ottawa. The incident occurred on Wednesday in the neighborhood around Bathgate Drive and Matheson Road, where the child was found unresponsive in the water and later pronounced dead.

Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-10-15, using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the same event (that is the story summary below).

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