A two-year-old boy is in hospital after nearly drowning at a beach on Great Harbour Cay on Tuesday night.

Police said the child was walking along the beach with his mother just before 9pm when he fell into a sinkhole.

She pulled him out unresponsive and rushed him to the island’s clinic where doctors revived him.

He was later airlifted to New Providence for further medical treatment

Police said investigations are continuing.