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An eight-year-old British girl has drowned in the Canary Islands, the Foreign Office has said.An eight-year-old British girl has drowned in the Canary Islands, the Foreign Office has said.
The tragedy happened on the holiday island of Lanzarote earlier this week.The tragedy happened on the holiday island of Lanzarote earlier this week.
A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We can confirm that an eight-year-old girl died in Lanzarote. We are providing full consular assistance."A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We can confirm that an eight-year-old girl died in Lanzarote. We are providing full consular assistance."
The spokesman said no further information was available about the incident or the dead girl's family at this stage. It is believed the girl was on holiday with her grandparents when she drowned in a swimming pool in Costa Teguise on the island's east coast.
They had been staying at apartments in the Loz Zocos Club Resort, it is understood.
Travel company First Choice, with whom the party had booked their flights, said they had flown out to Lanzarote on Sunday, 10 June for a week's holiday.