Spanish media reported today, Wednesday, that three members of an "American - British" family drowned in a hotel swimming pool on Christmas Eve while they were on vacation in Spain.
Media reports, quoting local authorities, said that the accident occurred in the Mijas municipality on the Costa del Sol in the south of the country, and a police spokesman told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that the cause of the accident was not yet known, but that a problem with the pump was not ruled out. For the pool.
A nine-year-old girl initially encountered a problem inside the pool, the Sur newspaper and other media reported, citing witnesses. Her father and 16-year-old brother tried to save her, but ended up drowning them three.
The management of the Club Hotel La Costa said that the staff and a doctor immediately rushed to help the inmates after the alarm was sounded, but that efforts to revive the victims were unsuccessful, while the witnesses, especially the mother and her third child, were treated psychologically.