By Tara Rippin • Published: 06 May 2020 • 16:46
THE victim and three friends reportedly went to the Bazaldua lagoon in Orduña to swim yesterday afteroon, but the deceased got into trouble and couldn’t get out of the water.
His friends called emergency services at around 6.30pm.
Two hours later, divers from the autonomous police force, Ertzaintza, retrieved the teenager’s body from the lagoon and a doctor certified his death.
Estamos en Orduña intentando localizar a una persona que ha desaparecido en una balsa de agua. Urduña inguruan gaude, ur putzu baten desagertutako pertsona baten bila. #uvr#ertzaintza pic.twitter.com/8U4mu75ACI — UVR Ertzaintza (@UvrErtzaintza) May 5, 2020
Estamos en Orduña intentando localizar a una persona que ha desaparecido en una balsa de agua.
Urduña inguruan gaude, ur putzu baten desagertutako pertsona baten bila. #uvr#ertzaintza pic.twitter.com/8U4mu75ACI
— UVR Ertzaintza (@UvrErtzaintza) May 5, 2020
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Tara Rippin is a reporter for Spain’s largest English-speaking newspaper, Euro Weekly News, and is responsible for the Costa Blanca region. She has been in journalism for more than 20 years, having worked for local newspapers in the Midlands, UK, before relocating to Spain in 1990. Since arriving, the mother-of-one has made her home on the Costa Blanca, while spending 18 months at the EWN head office in Fuengirola on the Costa del Sol. She loves being part of a community that has a wonderful expat and Spanish mix, and strives to bring the latest and most relevant news to EWN’s loyal and valued readers.
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