6-year-old girl drowns at hotel pool

Sunday, July 9, 2017
Girl, 6, drowns at hotel pool in Wildwood
Girl, 6, drowns at hotel pool in Wildwood. Brian Taff reports during Action News at 11 p.m. on July 8, 2017.

WILDWOOD, New Jersey -- A 6-year-old girl drowned at a hotel pool in Wildwood, New Jersey on Saturday.

It happened at the Nantucket Inn and Suites on Ocean Avenue.

Officials say the little girl was vacationing with several family members from Philadelphia when she wandered to the deep end of the pool.

She was underwater for several minutes.

The girl was rushed to Cape Regional Medical Center where she was pronounced dead Saturday evening.

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