A 21-year old man has been found dead in a Malaga villa swimming pool, the second pool death in the province in 24 hours.
The body was found at around 8am on Monday at a detached villa on Calle Almendros in El Palo, a seafront district on the eastern edge of Malaga city.
Witnesses raised the alarm after realising the man ‘wasn’t reacting’, according to Diario Sur, which first reported the death.
The 112 Andalucia emergency line sent ambulance crews and Policia Local to the address, but nothing could be done to revive him.
Policia Nacional has opened an investigation to establish the circumstances of the death.
No cause has been made public and the man has not been named.
It is the second body recovered from a swimming pool in Malaga province in little more than a day.
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A man of 58 was found unconscious in the pool of a cortijo — a rural farmhouse — near the Camino de Corca in Competa on Sunday morning, roughly 18km inland from the coast in the Axarquia hills.
Bystanders had already pulled him from the water when the alarm was raised at 7.50am, 112 Andalucia said.
Paramedics from the 061 medical emergency service could not save him.
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Guardia Civil, which polices rural areas outside Spain’s towns and cities, opened its own investigation into that death, while the Policia Nacional is handling the Malaga city case.
The two deaths come in a summer in which Spain recorded its deadliest month of June for deaths in the water since national figures began.
The Real Federacion Española de Salvamento y Socorrismo, the lifesaving body that compiles the count, logged 92 deaths in June, the highest for that month since the report started in 2015.
A further 91 died in July, of which 19 were in swimming pools, which brings the national total to 308 between January 1 and July 31.
Andalucia accounts for 49 of them, more than any other region in Spain.
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