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It was supposed to be a celebratory day — the Monday kicking off the first full week of the new school year.

Instead, the Dundonald school community has been left stunned and saddened by the death of a five-year-old Kindergartner who was found after morning recess in a nearby pond.

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Saskatoon police and MD Ambulance responded around 10:50 a.m. to the 100 block of Wedge Road, where “attempts were being made to locate a five-year-old child,” police said in a news release. The boy was found minutes later and taken by MD Ambulance to Royal University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

“When we arrived, we did find a five-year-old who was in cardiac arrest and we transported the five-year-old to RUH with full resuscitative efforts going,” MD Ambulance spokesman Troy Davies said.

Saskatoon Public Schools director of education Barry MacDougall confirmed the boy was found in the pond.

“There isn’t anything worse that can happen,” he told reporters Monday afternoon.