A third little girl has drowned on the Costa Blanca.

A 2 year old French girl drowned in a pool in Elche this week. The tragedy took place in a pool on an urbanisation called Torreazul.

She and her three brothers arrived only days earlier to holiday with their father . He lives at the rented house all year round .

Whilst the father was talking on the phone and the rest of the family watched television the little girl went missing .

She was found face down beneath a lilo by her elder brother .

Samu ambulance paramedics were unable to revive her .