Harrowing moments before toddler drowns during Easter hunt

It is believed the boys were looking for Easter eggs when they wandered away from their Paralowie home. Photo / 7News

Warning: Article contains detail of child’s death.

Footage has emerged of the tragic moment a one-year-old boy and his brother wandered away from their home, shortly before the toddler drowned in a nearby creek.

It is believed the boys were looking for Easter eggs at about 9am on Sunday when they wandered from the front yard of their Paralowie home in Adelaide’s north.

He was soon pulled unconscious from the Little Para River, only a few hundred metres from his house.

Emergency services were called to the scene around 9am on Sunday. Photo / 7News

Officers and paramedics arrived at the scene, and CPR was performed before he was “taken to hospital in a critical condition”.

South Australia Police confirmed to NCA NewsWire the toddler died in hospital on Monday.

It is believed the boys were looking for Easter eggs when they wandered away from their Paralowie home. Photo / 7News

Upon discovering he had wandered off, the child’s parents began a frantic search for him, according to 7News.

During their panic, the parents reportedly crashed their car into a nearby ditch.

During their frantic search, the toddler's parents reportedly crashed their car into a ditch. Photo / 7News

Police will now prepare a report for the coroner.

Sunday’s drowning comes as the latest in a string of child drownings in South Australia.

A child, under the age of 10, drowned in the bathtub of a Banksia Park home in early December.

It followed the drowning death of a nine-year-old at Waikerie Swimming Centre, about 200 kilometres northeast of Adelaide, just days earlier.