According to the Emergency Information and Coordination Center (CICU), a 70 year old man has drowned on Sunday afternoon in the sea off of La Glea de Campoamor beach, in Orihuela Costa.

It was around 2.50 pm, when the emergency services received notice of a man with symptoms of drowning.

A SAMU and Basic Life Support (SVB) were immediately mobilised. Despite the performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) manoeuvres on the individual there was no response and the man was pronounced dead at the scene.