British tourist, 52, drowns in hotel pool during Majorca holiday as he's pulled unconscious out of water
HOLS TRAGEDY British tourist, 52, drowns in hotel pool during Majorca holiday as he's pulled unconscious out of water
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A BRITISH tourist has drowned in his hotel pool in Majorca.
The 52-year-old man was found face down in the water by paramedics who rushed to the hotel after receiving an urgent alert.
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A British tourist has drowned in his hotel pool in Majorca
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The alarm was raised just after 8.30am this morning in S'llot - a small tourist town on the south east coast of the Balearic Island.
Emergency medical organisation SAMU said: 'A British man aged 52 has been found floating face down in the swimming pool of a hotel in S'Illot.
'He was pulled out of the water and basic resuscitation manoeuvres were practiced on him until the first ambulances arrived when it was confirmed he had gone into cardiac arrest.
'Despite attempts to resuscitate him he died. The alarm was raised at 8.37am this morning."
An air ambulance was quickly mobilised as well as a life-support ambulance.
Cops are yet to make an official comment on the circumstances surrounding the Brit's death.
An investigation is underway with island police still at the scene.
The tragedy comes just days after a 75-year-old Brit died while swimming during a boat trip in Greece.
The man was dragged from the sea off the holiday hotspot of Kefalonia during the tourist trip.
Another pensioner died on his sun lounger in Agia Paraskevi, Skiathos by horrified beachgoers after he went for a swim.
A local doctor tried to revive the man for 40 minutes but was unable to do so.
In June, another Brit tourist died in Greece after he went swimming.
The 68-year-old holidaymaker was found dead after he lost consciousness in the water off the island of Rhodes, local media reported.
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