{"id":32812,"date":"2026-06-01T13:51:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/32812\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T13:51:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:51:28","slug":"mother-and-grandmother-drown-saving-boy-5-from-reservoir-in-palencia-northern-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/32812\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother and grandmother drown saving boy, 5, from reservoir in Palencia, northern Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mother and grandmother of a five-year-old boy have drowned after trying to aid him when he got into difficulties in a Spanish dam during a family day out.<\/p>\n

The two women jumped into the water after a current started taking the youngster away from the shoreline as he played on a small paddle board.<\/p>\n

First his 32-year-old mum and then his 52-year-old grandmother are said to have tried to rescue him.<\/p>\n

Local fisherman discovered the child holding onto a tree trunk and raised the alarm so he could be taken to hospital for a check-up.<\/p>\n


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He was found in the same area as his mum\u2019s body. The boy\u2019s uncle was also taken to hospital after suffering a panic attack.<\/p>\n

The horror incident happened around 6.30pm yesterday at a dam in the small village of Ba\u00f1os de Cerrato in the northern Spanish province of Palencia.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for a regional government-run emergency response coordination centre said, initially reporting the child was three although his age was later given as five: \u201cA 112 call was received reporting that a three-year-old child was drowning at the Ba\u00f1os de Cerrato dam, in Venta de Ba\u00f1os in Palencia.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe caller said there was a person trying to pull the child out of the water who was unable to do so.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirefighters, the Civil Guard and emergency health responders were mobilised.<\/p>\n

\u201cLater, during a follow-up alert, the caller reported the child had been pulled from the water and that two adult women had died.<\/p>\n

\u201cEmergency services at the scene confirmed the deaths of the two women and reported that the child was safe.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cThe Civil Protection and Emergencies Agency of the Regional Government of Castille and Leon activated the Disaster and Emergency Psychological Intervention Group (GRIPDE) and deployed it to the scene.”<\/p>\n

Eduardo Santiago, a central government representative for the area, said: \u201cThis is a terrible tragedy which has shocked the province.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to express my condolences and affection to the families and loved ones of the victims during this time of immense pain.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is not yet clear if the family involved lived locally or had travelled from further afield to enjoy the Sunday sunshine.<\/p>\n

Banos de Cerrato forms part of the municipality of Venta de Banos and lies just south of Palencia, a city in the autonomous community of Castille and Leon a three-hour drive north-west of Madrid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mother and grandmother of a five-year-old boy have drowned after trying to aid him when he got…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[459,2208,16052,16050,1276,16049,775,4636,16053,16051,17],"class_list":["post-32812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-and","tag-boy","tag-dam","tag-drown","tag-from","tag-grandmother","tag-mother","tag-northern","tag-palencia","tag-saving","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}