Get the biggest daily news stories by email Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid EmailA drowning five-year-old boy somehow survived after his heart stopped beating for almost two hours. The youngster slipped and fell into the fish pond in Zongchang, Yibin City, in China and struggled to free himself. His desperate mother and granddad begged medics to continue and, after a full 110 minutes, he started breathing again. (Image: AsiaWire)Doctor Wan Bo, from Yibin Orthopaedics Hospital, today said: "I didn't have the heart to call time of death." Drowning occurs when the respiratory system fails as a result of being in or under liquid.

Source: Daily Mirror March 13, 2019 21:33 UTC