A 40-year-old Italian man drowned this Tuesday on the Miracle beach in Tarragona while trying to rescue two young people who were having difficulty getting out of the water.
The beach lifeguards have called the 112 emergency telephone number at 7:35 p.m. warning that two people had difficulties getting out of the sea, the Generalitat Civil Protection explained in a statement.
One of them was a 23-year-old girl, who has swallowed a bit of water, and the Sistema d’Emergències Mèdiques (SEM) has taken her to the Joan XXIII Hospital in Tarragona with a panic attack, while the boy who was with she has not needed medical assistance.
Witnesses to the events have explained that the deceased jumped into the water from a rocky area to try to rescue them when they saw that they had trouble getting out of the water.
A Maritime Rescue jet ski has rescued the man and has taken him to the beach, where they have tried to revive him without success.
Due to these events, five SEM ambulances, four Mossos d’Esquadra patrols, two Generalitat Fire Departments and the Maritime Rescue vessel have been activated.
The surveillance and lifeguard service on this beach (with a yellow flag on Tuesday) ends at 7:00 p.m., but the workers were still in the area half an hour later, when the incident occurred.
With this victim there have been 17 deaths on Catalan beaches during this year’s summer campaign, which began on June 15.
