Toddler in hospital after being pulled from Sydney backyard pool

A three-year-old boy has been rushed to hospital after being pulled from a backyard swimming pool in Sydney's south-west yesterday.

Emergency services were called to a home in Moorebank about 6.30pm after receiving reports a child had been found unresponsive in a backyard pool.

An earlier NSW Police release incorrectly reported the child had died.

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Paramedics attempted to resuscitate the child before he was taken to Prince of Wales Children's Hospital.

It's understood the child remains in the hospital.

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