The poor state of the sea due to the Levante wind continues to claim victims on the Alicante coast. Two people, a 66-year-old man and a 64-year-old woman of German nationality, died this Monday on Arenales beach in Elche, despite the intervention of the lifeguard services who performed basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation techniques on them until the The emergency health personnel have arrived, according to the Emergency Information and Coordination Center (CICU) of the Generalitat Valenciana. With these two victims, there are already 12 people who have died on Alicante beaches since last June 1.
The notice came around 1:15 p.m. and warned that a man and a woman had been pulled from the water in an unconscious state. According to sources close to the case, at that precise moment the yellow flag that was flying in Arenales was lowered to raise the red one, due to the progressive roughness of the sea. The lifeguards, whose service has been established on the beaches of the Elche municipality since June 1, have begun resuscitation maneuvers until the arrival of a medical team from SAMU and another health team from the Basic Vital Service (SVB), who have continued with advanced cardiopulmonary resuscitation and other recovery techniques, without finding an answer. Finally, they have confirmed the death of both people, of whom, for the moment, it is not known whether they were a couple or not. Agents from the Elche Local Police and the National Police have also responded to the emergency alert.
The swell, barely perceptible to the naked eye, as it generates internal currents that drag the sand from the seabed and keep bathers away from the shore, has become a very dangerous trap during this first half of June. This weekend, two more people died while trying to return to land. The first was on Saturday, at 3:30 p.m., on the Roqueta beach in Guardamar del Segura, a town where four fatalities have already been recorded, three of them on this same sandy area. According to the CICU, it was a 77-year-old man who had already been pulled unconscious from the water. The lifeguards who intervened on Friday in the rescue of eight people, of whom two finally died, despite not entering service until the next day the 15th, had left the red flag permanently raised in anticipation that the Levante storm would continue for weekend. That same day, the emergency services did manage to stabilize a 69-year-old man who showed symptoms of drowning on the Basseta de l’Oli beach in Villajoyosa. He was transferred to the Marina Baixa hospital in the same town.
Last Sunday, an 18-year-old young man died after receiving resuscitation maneuvers in the Almadrava cove in Benidorm. In this case, the intervention of the Provincial Consortium Firefighters was necessary, since access to the place where the young man’s unconscious body was found was very difficult. With this death, there are now twelve deaths that have occurred along the entire coast of the Costa Blanca since the beginning of the bathing season, on June 1.
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