Whilst the life an elderly man was saved on a beach in Torrenueva Costa yesterday, a woman in her 60s drowned off a beach in Rincón de la Victoria.

Bathers saw a body floating face down some 30 metres from the shore around 10.00h half way between the Rincón Sol and Fay Hotels.

An off-duty police officer from Vélez-Málaga swam out and brought the body back to dry land, where he started CPR.

“I saw the body floating in the sea and said, We’ve got to bring the victim back but nobody wanted to help, saying that it would be better to wait for the Guardia Civil,” he explained, at which point he explained that he was a police officer, himself, and that he was going out to retrieve the woman’s because there was a chance that she was alive.

Shortly afterwards, the Guardia Civil and an ambulance arrived and they took over the CPR for another half an hour, but to no avail and she was certified as dead at 11.00h.

The Guardia Civil managed to identify the victim, who was a resident of Rincón de la Victoria, so there were able to inform her family.

Until there is an autopsy, it can’t be established how she died; whether she drowned or had suffered a heart attack, for example.

(News: Rincon de la Victoria, Axarquia, Costa del Sol, Malaga, Andalucia – Photo: Encarni Hinojosa)

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