A five-year-old boy died in the early hours of Friday morning at the Carlos Haya hospital in Málaga after having been rescued from the water at El Morche beach, Torrox.
The boy had been at the beach with family and an investigation is underway to find out why his body was found floating in the sea.
Medics at the beach spent an hour trying to resuscitate the boy before transferring him first to the Hospital Comarcal and then to the Carlos Haya hospital in Málaga. Unfortunately, however, he was pronounced dead at around 05:00 on Friday morning.