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British grandmother drowns off Menorca trying to save granddaughter, 10, swept out to sea on the family's LAST DAY

Emergency responders attend the scene where lifeguards had been stood down more than two weeks before the tragedy after the local service was cancelled for the season.
Emergency responders attend the scene where lifeguards had been stood down more than two weeks before the tragedy after the local service was cancelled for the season.

A British grandmother, aged 69-70, drowned at Cavalleria beach in Menorca on Wednesday after plunging into rough seas to reach her granddaughter, whose small inflatable had been capsized by 30mph gusts and swept towards a rocky cove. Her husband dragged her lifeless body back to shore while other beachgoers used a rope torn from the beach's dune cordon to pull the mother and child to safety.

The grandfather was hospitalised with cuts after being battered against rocks; the girl and her mother were treated at the scene for severe anxiety attacks.

The family's villa was in Son Bou, and the tragedy unfolded on the last day of a week-long holiday, just hours before their scheduled flight home.

A Civil Guard investigation is ongoing; emergency responders including police, paramedics, firefighters and a maritime rescue helicopter all attended, but efforts to resuscitate the grandmother proved unsuccessful.

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