Officers rushed to the beach in Rhodes, Greece, before taking the 68-year-old Brit to a nearby health centre where he was pronounced dead
A 68-year-old Brit has died on a beach in Greece after going swimming and losing consciousness. Officers from the Central Port Authority rushed to Lindos beach in Rhodes and took the man to the nearby Archangelos health centre, where he was pronounced dead.
An autopsy is due to take place to determine his cause of death, reports Greek news outlet dimokratiki. It comes just weeks after a British tourist died in a suspected drowning after getting into difficulty whilst swimming in the sea. The holidaymaker went for a late-evening swim at the popular holiday resort of Fuengirola in Spain, as concerned eyewitnesses noticed he began struggling.
Police said onlookers then pulled him out of the water after calling emergency services. There was nothing the emergency responders could do to save him when they reached the beach and he was pronounced dead at the scene. A spokesman for a regional emergency response coordination centre confirmed: “A man died yesterday evening at a beach in Fuengirola.
“Emergency responders received the first of several calls around 9.10pm, saying a man was drowning in the sea off Fuengirola’s seafront.
“According to the callers he was about 60 metres out and was having difficulties getting out of the water. National and local police were mobilised along with coastguards and paramedics.”
“Two members of the public were able to get the man out of the water but despite the efforts of the emergency responders to save his life, there was nothing they could do to revive him. He was pronounced dead on the beach before he could be taken to hospital.”
In April, an Irish holidaymaker drowned on a nearby Costa del Sol beach during Spain’s historic blackout.
Darren Pilson, 53, from Howth, Co Dublin, was pulled out of the water after getting into difficulties off a beach in the resort of La Carihuela near Torremolinos.