The 9-year-old girl who was rescued on Saturday, in critical condition, on the Coma beach in Castelló d'Empúries (Girona) died this Wednesday at the Josep Trueta Hospital in the Girona capital. The death of the little girl is added to that of the 48-year-old man who was found dead this morning in Gavà (Baix Llobregat) and the 40-year-old man who died Tuesday on the Miracle beach in Tarragona, so there are three people who died on Catalan beaches in the last 24 hours.
The 9-year-old girl was admitted in critical condition to the Josep Trueta Hospital in Girona after being rescued along with her six-year-old sister, in a less serious condition.
According to Civil Protection, the beach did not have a surveillance service, and two units of the Medical Emergencies System (SEM), a helicopter and lifeguards from neighboring beaches attended the scene. The girl, of foreign nationality, had been hospitalized since Saturday, until, finally, this Wednesday she lost her life.
This morning we have had to regret another tragic event on the beach of Gavà. There, two paddle surfers have found the body of a man when they were walking about 50 kilometers from the coast.
The two women who have sighted it have picked it up from the middle of the sea and have transferred it in one of their boards to the beach, where shortly after its death has been certified.
The victim was a 48-year-old man of Spanish nationality from Cornellà de Llobregat, as confirmed by the Spanish police. "Pending the autopsy, a death from natural causes is presumed," they said in a statement.
Thirdly, a 40-year-old Italian man drowned this Tuesday on the Miracle beach in Tarragona, while trying to rescue two young people who were having difficulty getting out of the water.
The beach lifeguards called the 112 emergency telephone number at 7:35 p.m. warning that two people were having difficulties getting out of the sea, as explained by the Generalitat Civil Protection in a statement.
One of them was a 23-year-old girl, who has swallowed some water, and the Sistema d'Emergències Mèdiques (SEM) has taken her to the Joan XXIII Hospital in Tarragona with a panic attack, while the boy who was with her she has not needed medical assistance.
Witnesses to the events have explained that the deceased jumped into the water from an area of rocks to try to rescue them when they saw that they had trouble getting out of the water.
A Maritime Rescue jet ski has rescued the man and has taken him to the beach, where they have tried to revive him without success.
As reported today by Civil Protection, there are already 19 people who have lost their lives on Catalan beaches in the summer campaign period, which began on June 15 and will last until September 15.
Civil Protection urges extreme precautions on beaches, swimming pools and inland waters coinciding with a few days of very high temperatures.
