A British tourist has been found dead on a sunbed after suddenly falling ill while on holiday on a Greek island.
The 62-year-old British man was on Stalida beach in Crete with his wife on Thursday when tragedy struck, e-Kriti reported.
After a swim in the sea, he felt unwell so he returned to his sunbed to lie down when he suddenly died.
An ambulance was called and the man was pronounced dead at the scene.
An autopsy is expected to reveal the cause of death.
Tragedy struck on the same beach in July when another Brit lost his life.
The 54-year-old lay dead on the Greek beach for hours because people thought he was sunbathing.
Eventually, beachgoers went to check on him and they realised he was unconscious so alerted authorities who raced to the scene to try to resuscitate him.
At the start of October, a British woman was found washed up on the beach of Almyrida in Chania, Crete. The woman has been preliminarily identified as a Welsh holidaymaker, but no confirmation has been made.
The news comes authorities in Crete recover the body of a woman who is the second person to die in flash floods caused by severe storms that swept across the Greek island of Crete.
“The situation is out of control,” Mayor Giorgos Zervakis said.
He continued: “There have been landslides, roads are closed, areas are impassable because of cars and streets have turned into rivers. In all the years I have been in Sitia I’ve never seen anything like it."
Thousands of holidaymakers were trapped in the departure hall at Heraklion’s international airport after flights were cancelled because of submerged runways.
“Areas of the international airport have flooded and immediately have to be cleared. No one can tell when flights will resume". Giorgos Pliakas, the airport’s manager, told the local news outlet Cretapost.
