Overview
- Multiple drowning deaths occurred on Sunday, with two victims in A Coruña province (Broña beach, Outes, and a rocky area near Ferrol) and two in Alicante province (Mil Palmeras in Pilar de la Horadada and calas of Torrevieja).
- Emergency teams including SAMU, SVB units, medicalized helicopter crews, Salvamento Marítimo, firefighters and the Guardia Civil performed advanced resuscitation on each victim but were unable to revive them.
- Local reporting and municipal sources say the Mil Palmeras victim was a 24-year-old man from Balsicas who was pulled from the water about forty minutes after municipal lifeguard service ended.
- Authorities say the Torrevieja case involved a 23-year-old Algerian man rescued unconscious from an unsupervised cala, and companies that manage lifeguard services reported yellow and red flag warnings on nearby beaches during the day.
- Officials have ordered autopsies and launched standard inquiries to confirm causes, and these deaths during the first weekend of summer have prompted questions about lifeguard hours, beach surveillance and public warning effectiveness.