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Man, 60, drowns at Orihuela Costa beach and toddler is pulled unconscious from Benidorm pool
The drowning in Cabo Roig is the second fatality on the Vega Baja municipality's coastline in a month
Tragedy struck at a beach in Cabo Roig, Orihuela Costa, at the weekend, when a 60-year-old man died after being dragged from the water unconscious. In a separate incident, a 21-month-old girl was pulled from a Benidorm swimming pool showing symptoms of drowning before being rushed to a nearby hospital.
The fatality comes just a month after a 70-year-old man drowned at Orihuea Costa's Playa Flamenca.
The alarm was raised at 11.45am on Sunday June 11 when, according to the Emergency Information and Coordination Centre, a man had been pulled from the water unconscious. Witnesses at the scene began to perform cardiac massage until ambulance crews arrived and took over.
They continued with advanced cardiopulmonary resuscitation and other stabilisation techniques. Despite their efforts, the tragic bather failed to respond and was pronounced dead at the scene. A post portem will be carried out to reveal the cause of the drowning.
Hours later, at around 7pm, emergency services were called to a villa in Benidorm, the Costa Blanca's tourist capital, after a child was rescued from a pool struggling to breath.
A medical team managed to stabilise the 21-month-old girl before she was transferred to Marina Baixa Hospital in Villajoyosa "showing symptoms of drowning".
According to data from the Spanish Lifeguard Federation in the National Drowning Report, as of the beginning of April there were 78 drownings in the country. Unlike the period 2019 to 2022, when the Valencian Community topped the list of deaths by drowning, the Canary Islands leads (as of April 1 2023) with 22, followed by Andalusia with 15 and Galicia (11). Two months ago, there had been two deaths by drowning in the Valencia Community, but this figure has sadly risen.
Last week, fishermen in Denia reeled in another decomposed corpse off the coast of the Marina Lata town, the sixth found floating in these waters since March 24. The deceased are believed to have been migrants who perished attempting to reach the Costa Blanca shoreline aboard a small vessel known as a patera in Spanish.
Image: Orihuela Turistica
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