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Man flown to Pittsburgh hospital after near-drowning accident

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A man was flown to a Pittsburgh hospital after a near-drowning accident Friday afternoon at Canonsburg Town Park pool, according to Canonsburg Police Chief Alex Coghill.

Coghill said the man was discovered at the bottom of the pool and taken to Canonsburg Hospital before being flown by helicopter to Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh.

Coghill said additional information wasn’t available.

Calls to the pool were not answered.

This was the second near-drowning accident to occur in Canonsburg last week. On Thursday, a 2-year-old boy was found unresponsive in an above-ground pool at a home on Linda Court. The boy was flown to Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and has minimal brain function, according to his father Phil Gillum’s Facebook page.

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