Latest: Baby girl dies in Euroa drowning

A baby girl has drowned in the state’s north.

Emergency services were called to a Euroa home about 9pm last night amid reports a 15-month-old girl had drowned.

Tragically, she couldn’t be revived.

The circumstances of the drowning are not yet clear.

Police will prepare a report for the coroner.

It’s the first fatal drowning of the Victorian summer.

Twenty-three people drowned in Victoria between December and March last season.

That was a record, and nine more lives lost than the five-year average.