26 January 2023 , 13:44
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A toddler has died in a tragic choking accident in Ireland.
The tot, who was just two years old, died at his family home on a housing estate Skibbereen, County Cork on Wednesday night after the alarm was raised around 9pm.
Medics rushed to the property, but the youngster couldn't be saved and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Gardai told the Irish Mirror the boy's death isn't being treated as suspicious.
A spokesman said: “Shortly after 9pm, on Wednesday 25th January 2023, Gardai attended at a domestic residence in Skibbereen, Co. Cork, following the sudden death of a male toddler.
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“The Coroner has been notified and a post-mortem will be held at Cork University Hospital. Gardaí are currently treating the death as a tragic accident and foul play is not suspected.
The youngster was rushed to Cork University Hospital“Owing to the tragic nature of the incident no further information is available.”
Last year, an off-duty paramedic desperately tried to save a little girl from choking "on a foreign object" in Asda.
Poppy Reardon, 3, died in what's been described as a "tragic accident" while she was with her parents at the Asda on Ormskirk Road in Aintree.
The family were shopping for a camping trip they were due to take the following day.
An inquest into the young girl's death heard that Poppy had choked after biting something off of her dad's hooded top, reports the Liverpool Echo.
Poppy was being carried by her father when she began biting the plastic toggle, also known as a cord lock, the inquest heard.
Three Garda officers in Dublin city centre in July 2021 (NurPhoto/PA Images)Coroner Julie Goulding said Poppy had "accidently asphyxiated when she choked on the toggle she'd bitten off a top worn by her father."
She added despite the efforts of paramedics, which continued on Poppy's arrival to hospital, it "was not possible to resuscitate her".
In September, Butlins was slammed by a coroner after a toddler choked to death on a sausage while eating breakfast with his family.
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James Manning, two, choked on the pork product while on holiday with his family in Bognor Regis, West Sussex in June 2018.
As his family battled to save little James, Butlin's staff failed to intervene.
James, from Battle, East Sussex, was to the hospital by ambulance where he was placed on life support but he died two weeks later.
His death was ruled "accidental" and intervention by staff may not have saved him, an inquest heard last year.
However, Karen Harrold, assistant coroner for West Sussex, has condemned the holiday park firm for its first aid provision.