13 Jan, 2020 @ 12:40
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TRAGIC: British expat pensioner dies in house fire on Spain’s Costa del Sol

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Policia Nacional have taken over the investigation

A BRITISH pensioner has perished in a house fire on the Costa del Sol. 

The unnamed man, 79, died from smoke inhalation after his apartment in Torremolinos caught fire on Saturday morning.

Several neighbours first raised the alarm at around 9.45am, telling the 112 emergency service that smoke was bellowing from an apartment in a 10-storey block on Avenida de Benalmadena.

Policia Nacional, Policia Local, firefighters and paramedics rushed to the scene where they found the Brit’s lifeless body on the floor of the property.

He is believed to have died from asphyxiation as a result of smoke inhalation.

It is not yet known how the fire was started.

Policia Nacional have taken over the investigation.

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Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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