Deaths by drowning in beaches and swimming pools increase with the arrival of summer and the holidays, and this summer is no exception. A total of eight people, including three minors, have drowned on Spanish beaches and pools in the last 24 hours.
This month of July is being a difficult month, since almost every day the news breaks out that at least one or more people die in these circumstances. But last June it was too. A total of 57 people died in these circumstances, the second month of June with the most deaths by drowning in the last nine years, after the same figure occurred last year, according to the National Drowning Report (INA), prepared by the Royal Spanish Federation of Rescue and First Aid.
Two men and a woman drowned this Tuesday on the Marenys beach in Tavernes de la Valldigna (Valencia), in an event in which firefighters and members of the Red Cross mobilized who could not do anything to save their lives.
The victims were two men, who had been able to get other bathers out of the water, and a woman, whose body was rescued by members of the Red Cross. All of them were unconscious at the time of rescue. The bathing area was virgin and unguarded.
On Tuesday afternoon, a father died in a community pool in Santa Ponça, in the Mallorcan municipality of Calvià, while trying to save his three-year-old son who had fallen into the water. The man, a 37-year-old Indian citizen, was taken to hospital after being displaced in an emergency, but ended up dying because he couldn’t swim. On the other hand, the minor was seriously admitted to the pediatric ICU of the Son Espases hospital where he also ended up dying.
An oversight and a young age can be fatal in cases like that of this two-year-old girl who also drowned on Tuesday in a private pool in the Les Tres Cales urbanization, in l’Ametlla de Mar (Baix Ebre).
The emergency services received the call around 7:30 p.m., warning of the accidental drowning of a minor in the pool of a tourist rental house. In a moment of carelessness, the little girl, only two years old, fell into the pool without her parents noticing her. It was her sister who alerted the family that the girl was drowning. Despite the resuscitation maneuvers carried out by the health workers, to try to save the minor, they ended up certifying her death.
Also this Wednesday the death of a child has been confirmed, in this case 8 years old, after drowning yesterday in the Can Zam pool in Santa Coloma de Gramenet. The minor was participating in a group activity at a municipal summer camp when he drowned. He was transferred to the Germans Trias i Pujol hospital in Badalona, ??where he lost his life.
This Wednesday night the death of a man between the ages of 25 and 30 on the Miracle beach in Tarragona has been confirmed. According to the notice received by telephone 112 after 7:20 p.m., when there was no lifeguard service in the place, an individual had difficulties getting out of the water, located about 50 meters from the thing.
Several units of the Fire Brigade, the Medical Emergency System (SEM), the Red Cross, the Mossos d’Esquadra, the Tarragona Urban Guard and the Civil Guard have moved to the scene. And despite the resuscitation maneuvers practiced, he lost his life.
With this new fatality, since the summer season began on June 15, a total of 16 people have drowned on the beaches of the Catalan coast, five more than on the same dates last year.
