No 1027 Monday 10th - Sunday 16th June 2024
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a Roqueta beach in Guardamar del Segura took another life on Saturday, bringing the number of deaths to four at the same spot in just three days.
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On Saturday afternoon a 77-year-old man has died while bathing, according to sources from the Emergency Information and Coordination Centre (CICU), with the emergency services receiving the notification at 3:30 p.m. The victim was pulled out of the water by other bathers who were on the beach, but he was in an unconscious state, despite attempts to revive him. This is the same beach where 2 brave heroes, a 52-year-old Briton and a 46-year-old man from Poland, gave their lives just 24 hours earlier, on Friday morning, as they attempted to rescue two children, aged 6 and 7, who had found themselves in difficulty. On Saturday afternoon paramedics carried out resuscitation manoeuvres on the bather but there has been no response. This was the fourth death on La Roqueta beach in just three days. As we already reported, a 68-year-old Israeli man died on Thursday, and on Friday two other men, the Briton and the Pole, lost their lives while trying to rescue two children, who were finally able to get out of the water. It is not known whether either of the two men who lost their lives on Friday had any relationship to the two children.
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