A BRITISH tourist has been brought back from the brink by a heroic crew of bystanders after suffering a cardiac arrest on a busy Costa del Sol beach path .
The man, thought to be around 50, was saved by an off-duty firefighter, a defibrillator, and a lifeguard team that reached him in minutes.
He collapsed suddenly on the seafront walkway connecting Burriana beach and Carabeillo beach in Nerja at around midday on Sunday June 7, as he walked with his family.
Witnesses raised the alarm immediately.
Two passers-by stepped in first — one of them a firefighter who happened to be in the area — and began resuscitation attempts while emergency services were scrambled.
Nerja council’s beach lifeguard unit deployed two personnel from Burriana beach, carrying a semi-automatic defibrillator.
Policia Local officers and an ambulance from the town’s health centre also raced to the scene.
After several minutes of CPR and repeated shocks from the defibrillator, the man’s pulse was restored.
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He was taken to hospital for specialist treatment.
No further details about his identity or condition had been made public at the time of writing, according to Diariosur, which first reported the story.
The incident unfolded on one of Nerja’s most heavily used stretches of coastline, busy with residents and visitors on a Sunday in early June.
It is the third such resuscitation in the Axarquia region in the space of weeks.
In May, a Belgian athlete was revived after collapsing at a sports centre in Velez-Malaga, where a firefighter and gym staff used CPR and a defibrillator before paramedics arrived.
Days later, an off-duty nurse saved a man in his 70s who collapsed on a street in Caleta de Velez.
Three lives saved in one corner of the Costa del Sol — in each case, by someone who didn’t wait to be asked.
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