Three people have drowned this Saturday on Catalan beaches and on all three there was surveillance and the yellow flag was waving due to the poor state of the sea, the Generalitat Civil Protection reported in a statement, adding that there are already nine deaths this summer. The latest victim is a 60-year-old Cuban who was bathing around 6:45 p.m. on the Rovina beach in Castelló d’Empúries (Girona): the lifeguard service warned that they had rescued him unconscious from the water but he could no longer be revived .
Today’s three deaths occur on a day in which the red flag that prohibits bathing on 25 Catalan beaches and the yellow flag, which recommends caution, is waving on another 156, as a result of the rough seas that occurred this Saturday in the coastline.
The second victim is a 32-year-old man of Indian nationality, who drowned while bathing on the Miracle beach (Tarragona), which has a lifeguard service. At 4:12 p.m., the emergency services received notice from the beach lifeguard that he had pulled a man out of the water who was unconscious on the sand, and on whom the other members of the lifeguard service have carried out resuscitation maneuvers until the arrival of the troops from the Emergency Medical System (SEM). The technicians of that service have also practiced cardiopulmonary resuscitation maneuvers for more than an hour, which have finally been unsuccessful.
The other victim is a 55-year-old man, who died this afternoon by drowning on Salatar beach, in the Girona town of Roses. The Servei d’Emergències Mèdiques (SEM) received the notice at 12:30 p.m. and at the time of the incident there was a lifeguard service on the beach and the yellow flag was waving.
In addition, a 13-year-old girl is seriously hospitalized because she began to drown on a beach in Empuriabrava (Girona) where there was surveillance and the red flag was waving.
Civil Protection has reiterated the need to be extremely careful on the beaches and swimming pools and always keep in mind your own physical conditions and avoid overexertion so as not to have difficulties getting out of the water.
