Two young children in the care of French social services have died after falling into a pond next to a hotel where they were living in temporary accommodation, officials said Sunday, reports Global Post.
Two others were fighting for their lives after a total of five children aged between three and eight were discovered unconscious in the water on Saturday, having apparently been left unsupervised.
The pond is located close to a cheap hotel on an industrial estate near Saint-Ouen-l'Aumone on the northeastern outskirts of Paris.
The children were from three different families and were temporarily in care while their single mothers underwent psychological treatment.
The prosecutor in charge of the investigation Eric Maurel said on Saturday that nobody had seen the children enter the water.
Police were called by a hotel employee who was alerted by another child.
Read more of this AFP report published by Global Post.