Horror as Brit tourist found dead on Greek beach sun lounger after 'feeling ill'
The 74-year-old was found unconscious at around 12pm on Sunday by fellow beach-goers on Stalis Beach on the isle of Crete. Emergency services rushed to the scene and made a desperate bid to revive the man, but unfortunately their efforts proved unsuccessful.
It is understood that he had first gone for a swim before returning to the sun lounger and there are reports he had a "strong feeling" of sickness shortly before his death.
Paramedics from Hellenic National Center of Emergency Care (EKAB) treated the man at the scene and no cause of death has yet been given by the Greek authorities. An autopsy is now being carried out.
It comes after last month after a 73-year-old British man was found dead on a beach in Agia Paraskevi, Skiathos, in Greece. A lifeguard was alerted, but the man could not be saved, despite a doctor attempting to bring him around for 40 minutes.
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