One person drowned*every 6 days of 2015

[Canarian Weekly]

DROWNING continues to be a real problem in the Canaries, figures depicting it as Spain’s second-worst region. New data, provided by the Royal Spanish Lifesaving Federation, reveals that there was one death by drowning every six days in the past year. Only Andalusia had more drownings (68) representing 16.4% of the total, followed by Canaries […]

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[Newforest]

Plus one. This afternoon, there was another death, believed to be a drowning accident on Playa de Fanabe. The rescue services worked for over an hour to revive the patient but to no avail. R.I.P.