Alex Trelinski
A MAN drowned at El Campello’s Muchavista beach on Sunday, three days after a Madrid couple in their eighties died at Guardamar’s central beach.
On Sunday evening, another bather died in the south of Alicante province, followed by another fatality in the sea on Monday.
In the first incident, a 52-year-old Georgian got into trouble at around 3.30pm when swimming around 150 metres from the shore at Muchavista.
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His partner told lifeguards that she was concerned because though he was a good swimmer, he gone much further than expected.
The lifeguards reached him but he was already unconscious when they pulled him out of the water, and attempts to resuscitate him failed.
Last week a man hiring out sunbeds at Muchavista was involved in two rescues involving four people- including a mother and daughter- who got into difficulty in the water.
Later on Sunday, a 45-year-old Columbian man died at Mil Palmeras beach in Pilar de la Horadada.
He got into trouble around 8pm some 200 metres from the shore and shouted for help, with two bathers and a lifeguard bringing him out of the water.
He had suffered a cardiac arrest and could not be revived.
On Monday, an 80-year-old Spanish woman drowned shortly after 2pm in Torrevieja at the city’s Acequion beach after bathers pulled her out of the sea but paramedics could not save her.
