A British man has died following an accident at his hotel pool (Picture: imageBROKER/Shutterstock)
A British tourist has died in Ibiza after failing to surface when coming down his hotel’s water slide.
The 64-year-old’s relatives,including his wife and daughter – who were on the family holiday with him – are understood to have been watching at the time.
Paramedics and other emergency medical responders arrived at the site after he was spotted in trouble in the pool at the unnamed hotel in the popular resort of Cala Tarida on Ibiza’s west coast.
He was given CPR and treated with a defibrillator by hotel staff after they confirmed he had gone into cardiac arrest. Emergency responders then took over.
But attempts to save him were unsuccessful,and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
A police investigation is now ongoing following the fatal incident at around 11.30am on Saturday.
He had been staying at the resort of Cala Tarida on Ibiza’s west coast (Picture: Getty Images)This morning,a spokesman for the Civil Guard confirmed: ‘A British holidaymaker aged 64 has died following an incident at a hotel in Cala Tarida in Ibiza on Saturday morning.‘Officers are reporting to a local court.’A source added: ‘The post-mortem will help determine if this man suffered some sort of health problem before he entered the water.‘He had entered the pool via a water slide. He was staying at the hotel with relatives,including his wife and a daughter.’In the last month,four children from the UK have drowned in pools in Spain,including a three-year-old who was taken to hospital after being found ‘floating face-down’ in her holiday pool in Majorca the previous evening.The little girl was revived by the poolside of the family’s rented four-bed villa in Pollensa in the north of the island following the drama around 8pm on June 24.Her parents rescued her from the water before police and paramedics took over with CPR at the scene.She was still said to be in a ‘very serious’ condition at Son Espases Hospital in the Majorcan capital,Palma,the following morning,having been admitted with a very weak pulse.It was later sadly confirmed that the child had died.Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at .For more stories like this,check our news page.
