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Two young children have been hospitalized after separate near- drowning incidents in Johnston County on Sunday.Derek Casanova-Gonzalez, 4, was found unconscious Sunday morning in an outdoor fountain.According to Clayton Police, the boy was with his parents Sunday morning as they worked to clean inside a child development center in the Riverwood Athletic Club.When the parents, Johnston County residents Gil Alonso and Erika Gonzalez-Trejo, noticed the child missing, they searched and found him unresponsive in the fountain pool, the police said.The boy was revived and transported to WakeMed Raleigh Campus.Later on Sunday, an unidentified 4-year-old girl was recovered from Tucker Lake, a privately owned lake southwest of Benson.The child was in cardiac arrest but was revived and flown by helicopter to Duke Hospital, according to the Johnston County Sheriff's Department.
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