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6-Year-Old Dies After Being Pulled From Hotel Pool

Last updated on Tuesday, December 9, 2014

(COLUMBUS) - Police say a 6-year-old girl has died after being pulled from the swimming pool at a central Indiana hotel over the weekend.

Columbus police Sgt. Matt Harris says emergency crews were called to the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center after a boy pulled Jolee Dufek of Nashville from the water Saturday night.

Harris tells The Republic that several nurses worked to revive Jolee before she was taken to Columbus Regional Hospital and then by helicopter to Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis. Harris says Jolee died Sunday morning.

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