Yahoo News UK tourist drowns in front of wife while swimming in sea at popular Greek spot
A UK tourist drowned while swimming in the sea at a popular holiday resort, according to local reports. The 76-year-old man was visiting Kalymnos, one of Greece’s Dodecanese Islands that is situated next to the Turkish mainland, when the incident happened on Tuesday (May 9).
Kalymnos is around 70 miles from the Mediterranean resort town of Marmaris where a British pensioner also tragically drowned last month, The Mirror reports. According to local news site palmoskalymnou, the man and his wife had travelled by boat from the nearby island Kos, to the south of Kalymnos, and were swimming in the ocean near the island's Vathi port.
It’s reported that the man went for a swim in the sea but got into difficulty. The coastguard rushed to help and he was taken to Kalymnos General Hospital where the man, who is yet to be identified, was pronounced dead, according to news site thessnews.gr. The Kalymnos Port Authority will launch an investigation into the incident.
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It comes after a British pensioner also drowned at the Turkish resort town of Marmaris last month, only 70 miles away. The 73-year-old had reportedly been on a coastal tour in Mugla Province when he jumped into the Mediterranean as temperatures reached a scorching 25C in the area.
But the British tourist struggled to get back into the boat, leading stricken friends to call emergency services. A team of coastguards, police and divers in two boats pulled him from the water and rushed him to paramedics waiting on the beach on April 16. However they were unable to save him and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
