Two-year-old boy pulled from drain in ACT

Swimming lessons may have saved a two-year-old boy from going under after he was caught in a stormwater drain at Tuggeranong in the ACT.

The boy was rushed to hospital suffering from hypothermia and injuries after he was pulled from the drain in Gordon by members of the public at about 7.30pm on Saturday.

Ambulance paramedics arrived and immediately treated the boy for hypothermia as well as bumps and bruises before taking him to Canberra Hospital in a stable condition.

The paramedics were told by onlookers that the boy had kept himself afloat by using strokes he had recently learned at swimming lessons.