A two-year old boy has died after it appears he was strangled by the cord of a window blind in the southwest community of Discovery Ridge.

Around noon, the boy was found unresponsive by a police officer who immediately began performing life-saving measures before the toddler was rushed to the Alberta Children’s Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Duty Inspector Paul Stacey tells 660News, they are investigating the incident thoroughly before ruling it an accident and are waiting for the medical examiner’s office to confirm the cause of death.

Stacey says there was one parent at home when the accident happened.