Black weekend for pool and beach drownings: Four victims, including two-year-old
Monday, July 11, 2016 @ 9:05 PM
FOUR people have drowned this weekend in the sea and in swimming pools across the country, including a two-year-old girl in El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz province).
In the latter case, the tot fell into a private pool at a villa on the C/ Snipe at around 09.00hrs on Sunday and went into cardiac arrest.
She had slipped out of the house when her parents turned their back for a split second.
A man aged 51 was seen floating, unconscious, off the beach in Colònia de Sant Pere (pictured) in Mallorca at 13.40hrs, also on Sunday, and was found to be in cardiac arrest when lifeguards pulled him out of the water.
They were unable to bring him round and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
A woman aged 40 lost her life off the Area Maior beach in Muros (A Coruña province, in the north-western region of Galicia) at 15.09hrs, despite emergency medical helicopters being sent in.
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