4-year-old Alberta boy dies in hospital after being found in Airdrie pond

Police say a four-year-old boy who was found earlier this month in a pond in Airdrie, Alta., has died in hospital.

Airdrie RCMP received a call about a missing child in the community north of Calgary on Oct. 3.

A short time later, police received another call, about a child found in medical distress, Mounties said.

Officers arrived to discover that bystanders had removed the boy from a neighbourhood pond and tried to help until emergency medical services arrived.

He was taken by ambulance to a Calgary hospital, where police say he died Sunday.

Police and EMS say in a statement that they empathize with the family, bystanders and community in the tragic loss.