Seven-year-old boy drowns in pool on the first day of a family holiday in Egypt

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A seven-year-old boy has drowned in a swimming pool on the first day of a family holiday in Egypt.

Alfie Gray, who played for Crawley Town Boys football club, died in hospital last Tuesday.

It is understood his family, from Crawley, in West Sussex, arrived at the Reef Oasis Beach Resort in Sharm el-Sheikh the day before the accident.