28 people drowned in October without counting the deaths caused by DANA

Only between January and October 2017, more deaths from this cause had been registered in the INA, which has been compiled since 2015 by the Royal Spanish Federation of Rescue and First Aid, with 439. Due to the exceptional effects of the DANAat the closing of the INA to October 31 Others were confirmed in the past 22 deaths due to drowning, 19 in the Valencian Community, 2 in Castilla-La Mancha and 1 in Andalusia.

These events, being related to an extreme weather situation, They do not count in the accumulated total of the INA to avoid distorting the comparative analysis and the annual trend of drownings in Spain.

Of the 435 deaths, Andalusia It is the Autonomous Community that accumulates the most deaths, with 68six more than the Valencian Community, which has 62 and ten more than Galicia, which has a total of 58 so far this year.

Behind, in number of deaths between January 1 and October 31, are the Canary Islands and Catalonia, with 45 each. They are followed by the Balearic Islands and Castilla y León, with 27 drownings throughout the year in each region, Region of Murcia (19), Castilla-La Mancha (16), Extremadura (12), Asturias (11) and Aragón and the Basque Country, each of them has accumulated 10 deaths so far this year.

The communities that have accumulated less than ten drowned people throughout the year are Cantabria, with eight deaths, the Community of Madrid (7), Navarra (5), La Rioja (3) and the Autonomous Cities of Ceuta and Melilla, with 1 in each case.

As for the profile Overall, so far in 2024, it is a male (81.4%) over 45 years old (57.7%), of Spanish nationality (84.2%), who lost their life on a beach (50.8%), without surveillance (44.4%), over a long period of time, which It includes between 10:00 and 18:00 (55.4%).