19 May, 2024 @ 11:58
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Young man, 21, drowns in swimming pool inside a Fuengirola urbanisation on Spain’s Costa del Sol

Google street view of Avenida Pacosol in Fuengirola

A YOUNG man has died after drowning in a swimming pool in Fuengirola.

The 21-year-old lost his life inside an urbanisation on Avenida Pacosol late last night.

According to the 112 emergency service, panicked calls reporting a man being pulled from the water came in at around 10.50pm on Saturday.

Witnesses were reportedly performing CPR while they waited for paramedics to arrive.

Google street view of Avenida Pacosol in Fuengirola

While medical teams did their best to save the man, they were unable to revive him.

No further details have been released about the tragic incident.

The nationality of the victim is not yet known.

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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