An island holiday has turned to tragedy after a British woman was found dead in a swimming pool in Greece.
The 66-year-old’s partner made the awful discovery when he found her unconscious in a pool at a villa where the couple were staying together.
“A person with knowledge of how to do it tried to resuscitate her before emergency services arrived,” local media said, The Sun reports.
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Emergency crews rushed to the accommodation on the island of Zante where they took over CPR on the tourist.
The woman was taken to a local hospital by paramedics shortly after 4.30pm when she registered no pulse.
As doctors desperately tried to save the woman on the way to the emergency department, her partner stayed back at the villa.
She was sadly pronounced dead at the hospital.
According to early reports, it is believed the British couple were drinking before the fatal incident occurred.
Authorities have launched an investigation into the incident to determine the details of her death.
The woman’s identity is not yet known.
The heartbreaking tragedy death comes after five tourists died after vanishing during a cave-diving expedition in the Maldives.
The group disappeared while exploring underwater caves about 50m deep in the popular Vaavu Atoll, south of the capital Male, on Thursday morning.
Among the dead were 55-year-old marine biologist Monica Montefalcone and her 20-year-old daughter Giorgia Sommacal.
The other victims were identified as Federico Gualtieri, Gianluca Benedetti and Muriel Oddenino.
Italian authorities said the divers were believed to have died while attempting to explore caves extending as deep as 60m beneath the surface.
The group had reportedly boarded the live-aboard diving vessel Duke of York before failing to return from the dive.
The alarm was raised about 1.45pm, sparking a frantic search involving speedboats and aircraft.
Maldives National Defence Force crews discovered a body inside a cave, with authorities believing the remaining four divers were trapped in the same underwater system.
