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Toddler flown to hospital in serious condition

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Serious condition: A toddler has been flown to the Royal Children’s Hospital after an incident near Shepparton on Monday morning. Photo by Megan Fisher

A toddler was in a stable condition at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne on Monday afternoon, after he was found in a channel near Shepparton earlier in the day.

Ambulance Victoria was called to Pine Lodge about 9.30am on February 6 where paramedics treated the toddler before he was flown to hospital in a serious condition.

Police said the 18-month-old boy got out of a house at Pine Lodge and was found by his mother a short time later in a channel.

Shepparton Search and Rescue was also called, to reports of a child in water in a channel, however were cancelled on the way there.