A 61-year-old woman drowned on Tuesday when she bathed in a public pool in Gualba (Barcelona), bringing the number of deaths in swimming pools this summer in Catalonia to three.
As reported by Civil Protection, the 112 emergency telephone number received at 12:10 a.m. a notice from a guard that an unconscious woman had been taken out of the water.
Once out of the water, they tried to revive the woman, but without success, despite the intervention of specialists from the Medical Emergency System (SEM), who dispatched two ambulances and a helicopter to the scene.
With this, there are already three fatalities in swimming pools in Catalonia since June 15: the first was on June 21 in Pontons and the second on June 28 in Torrelles de Foix.
Likewise, since June 15, another 17 people -15 of them minors- almost drowned in swimming pools in Catalonia and some of them were critical or very serious, although their case did not end up being fatal, according to Civil Protection.
