20 Mar, 2018 @ 13:22
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Body found of hero Malaga policeman who saved trapped passengers during floods in Sevilla

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HERO: Diego Diaz
HERO: Diego Diaz

THE body of a hero policeman who was swept away while rescuing a trapped driver during a flood has been found.

Diego Diaz disappeared when he was taken by rapids in the Galapagar de Guillena stream in Sevilla on Saturday night.

He managed to rescue every passenger from the trapped car before the water took him.

The body was found 300 meters from where the accident happened.

Some 200 police, firemen and volunteers had been searching for Diaz.

 

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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