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Toddler In Medically-Induced Coma After Near-Drowning In Stewartville

/ CBS Minnesota

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- A toddler is in the hospital after almost drowning in a retention pond in Olmsted County.

(credit: CBS)

It happened in the backyard of a home in Stewartville Wednesday. A babysitter lost sight of the 18-month-old boy for just a moment. They found him in the retention pond and started CPR immediately.

He was taken to Saint Marys Hospital in Rochester, where he is in a medically-induced coma.

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