A 15-year-old boy is understood to have been left fighting for his life after he was discovered floating unconscious in a swimming pool on a holiday in northern Portugal
A British teenage tourist is said to be fighting for his life after being found floating unconscious in a swimming pool in northern Portugal.
The unnamed 15-year-old is understood to have been rushed to Braga Hospital in a “critical condition” earlier today. The pool has been described as private and is in the quaint village of Aborim in the municipality of Barcelos.
Firefighters are said to have been among the emergency responders called to the scene. Local reports state the incident happened today, but it is not yet clear exactly at what time and who the teenager was staying with.
Last month British friends King Edonmi, 29 and Mo Lisau, 27, were discovered lifeless in their Albufeira hotel pool. Portuguese police sources subsequently said ahead of post-mortems they believed the design of the pool combined with the fact they couldn’t swim had likely led to their deaths.
The source told The Sun: “It is a very weird swimming pool. It has shallow water in most of the pool but a very deep approximately three-metre pit in the middle.
“The two men were seen talking with some girls by the pool and then went to the pool and got into difficulties in that deep middle part. They weren’t able to swim. It’s not a case of excess, but an unfortunate accident in a bizarre swimming pool.”
In the early hours of August 9, a British family were killed in a crash hours after they flew to Portugal from their UK home and rented a hire car at Faro Airport on the Algarve to start their holidays.
Domingos Serrano, 55, his wife Maria, 51, and their 20-year-old twin sons Afonso and Domingos, all British passport holders according to police, died in the fireball accident as they headed north towards the town of Mourao where the boys’ parents were born before emigrating.
The 19-year-old Polish-born girlfriend of one of the twins, identified only by her first name Veronica, also died in the accident along with 26-year-old mine worker Ruben Goncalves who was driving the car their rented Nissan Juke collided head-on with on a bend on the IP2 main road.