A BRIT boy was rushed to hospital after being pulled unconscious from the bottom of a Costa Blanca swimming pool.

       The 12-year-old is said to have been rescued from the water by desperate relatives before paramedics saved his life by administering CPR at the scene.

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       The youngster was rushed to hospital after being rescued from the pool Credit: Solarpix

       The alarm was raised just before 5pm on Tuesday.

       Emergency responders were called to a house on a residential estate in the holiday resort of Javea, near Benidorm, when they found the boy beside the pool.

       Unconfirmed local reports said he had been practicing holding his breath underwater and could have suffered lung infarction.

       Police sources confirmed the youngster was a British 12-year-old but said they were unable to offer any more details.

       A spokesman for the Civil Guard said: "We were called to a property in Javea just before 5pm on Tuesday.

       "The boy that was rescued came close to drowning and was taken to hospital."

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       A well-placed source added: "He had a very weak pulse when the first emergency responders arrived but fortunately the efforts to save him were successful."

       As well as local police and Civil Guard, paramedics, Red Cross workers and staff from a local health centre were mobilised.

       The hospital where the youngster was taken, Denia Hospital, has not made any official comment yet.

       Regional government health officials said on Wednesday that the boy remained in hospital but it was too early to say how his condition would develop.

       A routine investigation, led by the Civil Guard under the coordination of a local court, is ongoing.

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       Emergency responders administered life-saving CPR at the scene on the 12-year-old Brit Credit: Solarpix

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