ARCHIVED - Tragedy as woman drowns in pool at urbanisation in Orihuela
Neighbours tried to save the 60-year-old at a communal pool in the Vega Baja comarca of Alicante province.
A 60-year-old woman has tragically drowned at a communal swimming pool at an urbanisation in Orihuela.
The Emergency Information and Coordination Centre (CICU) received a call at around 9.30pm requesting help while several neighbours were performing basic cardiopulomonary resuscitation on the woman after pulling her from the pool.
A SAMU ambulance was sent to the scene and a medical team continued with advanced resuscitation and other stabilisation techniques, but there was no response, and the woman sadly died.
A post mortem is being carried out to reveal the cause of the drowning.
This is the fifth drowning since mid-May in the Alicante province on the Costa Blanca. Four people have lost their lives swimming in the sea at beaches in Javea, Alfaz del Pi, Moraira and Villajoyosa.
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