A toddler has died after being found unresponsive in a pond in Melbourne's inner-west earlier this week.
The two-year-old girl was in the pond at Footscray park on Maribyrnong Boulevard around 8pm on Monday.
She was rushed to the Royal Children's Hospital but died overnight, trauma director Professor Warwick Teague confirmed on Friday.
Her uncle, Rasheed Rishi, shared a farewell to his niece on social media.
'This flower could not find her sweetness,' he said.
'We belong to Allah and to Him we shall return.
'Miss you.'
Several other friends and family members from overseas shared their goodbyes.
'May God be with you, beautiful one,' one woman said.
'This is so sad,' another person wrote.
The pond is close to the park's 'all-abilities playspace' and was the scene of another toddler's drowning earlier this year on June 30.
The three-year-old girl was found unresponsive in the pond around 3pm and died in hospital five days later.
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