Police in Spain are investigating the deaths of an Irish couple at a coastal resort south of Valencia.<\/p>\n
Homicide squad officers are leading the investigation, although police say the possibility they suffered an accident while they were in a jacuzzi has not yet been ruled out.<\/p>\n
Their bodies were discovered yesterday afternoon in a residential estate called Cap Blanc in Cullera, a town of around 25,000 people south of Valencia.<\/p>\n
Local police were mobilised along with the Civil Guard, the force which is leading the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n
Confirming their nationalities this morning, a spokesman for the Civil Guard in Valencia said: “The bodies of a man aged 50 and a woman aged 45 were found yesterday at a residential property in the municipality of Cullera. Both were Irish.<\/p>\n
“Their children discovered the bodies in a jacuzzi and alerted the authorities.<\/p>\n
“I’m not in a position to say exactly why but the first officers who reached the scene found evidence pointing to the possibility the couple might not have died of natural causes and therefore a specialist Civil Guard homicide unit in Valencia was mobilised to take charge of the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n
“Nothing has yet been ruled out.”<\/p>\n
A sample of the water in the jacuzzi was taken so it can be analysed in a specialist laboratory.<\/p>\n
The children are being cared for by social workers assisted by a psychologist.<\/p>\n
Cap Blanc is a popular beach and residential area in Cullera, situated near the resort\u2019s lighthouse.<\/p>\n
The gated community\u2019s villas and apartments have views of the Mediterranean Sea.<\/p>\n
The Department of Foreign Affairs has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Spain are investigating the deaths of an Irish couple at a coastal resort south of Valencia.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-605070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}