British holidaymaker drowns in his Majorcan hotel pool
Paramedics on the island said today they rushed to the unnamed hotel in S'Illot near the Love Island villa after receiving an alert about a 52-year-old Brit found face down in the water.
The alarm was raised just after 8.30am this morning.
Emergency medical organisation SAMU said: 'A British man aged 52 has been found floating face down in the swimming pool of a hotel in S'Illot.
'He was pulled out of the water and basic resuscitation manoeuvres were practised on him until the first ambulances arrived, when it was confirmed he had gone into cardiac arrest.
'Despite attempts to resuscitate him, he died. The alarm was raised at 8.37am this morning.'
As well as a life-support ambulance, an air ambulance is also understood to have been mobilised.
Island police have launched an investigation and are understood to be at the scene but have yet to make an official comment.
It was not immediately clear early this morning if the dead man was holidaying alone or with friends or family.
In September last year, a teenage British holidaymaker was left fighting for life after plunging headfirst from the first floor of her hotel in the same resort.
The drama happened at Playamar Hotel & Apartamentos.
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