A tragic mother’s final words were “My son is dying” before she and the 5-year-old boy she was trying to save were found dead in their backyard pool.

Elizabeth Solomon likely drowned Saturday night at her home in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, when she jumped in after her son Emmanuel Akrong Jr., who may have fallen in, her grieving husband, Emmanuel Akrong Sr., told the Toronto Star.

Neither knew how to swim.

“Everyone is surprised she could drown,” the elder Akrong told the website.

The heartbreaking ordeal unfolded around 7:30 p.m., while Solomon, 38, was on the phone with her mother, who lives in Ghana.

“My son is dying,” she blurted out before the line went dead, according to the family’s pastor, John Danquah.

The couple moved to Canada from their native Ghana in 2011 and settled on a quiet residential street in the city just outside Toronto.

The pool at their tony home had been drained and closed for the season, Akrong Sr. said.

Rainwater had accumulated in the deep end but no more than 2 feet, he guessed.

Akrong Sr., who was home and taking a nap at the time, made the heart-stopping discovery of his wife and son’s bodies after receiving frantic calls from Solomon’s mother and brother, who were trying to piece together what happened.

He tried lifting his wife’s body from the water but couldn’t on his own — so he yelled for help. Next-door neighbor Ozzy Anjum rushed over and tried doing CPR on the boy, then went to rescue Solomon with the help of another neighbor.

“We dragged her out and flipped her on the deck. There was dirt in her eyes and mouth,” Anjum said. “It’s very sad news. What he [Akrong Sr.] must be going through, this must be so hard on him.”

Solomon was taken to the hospital and died Sunday morning. The boy was pronounced dead on arrival.

“I tried to help my son,” Akrong Sr. recalled tearfully, remembering the pre-schooler as a “lovely boy, my best friend.”

“We had a lot of fun together,” he added.

Local police are working with the coroner’s office to figure out how the double tragedy occurred.

Experts said it’s possible for people to drown in a small amount of water — and that it can happen fast.

“It can happen in 20 seconds,” Barbara Byers, public education director at the Lifesaving Society, told the Star.