{"id":249198,"date":"2025-11-07T11:31:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/249198\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T11:31:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:31:05","slug":"british-tourist-57-found-dead-12-miles-from-his-hotel-in-spanish-holiday-hotspot-granada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/249198\/","title":{"rendered":"British tourist, 57, found dead 12 miles from his hotel in Spanish holiday hotspot Granada"},"content":{"rendered":"

A British tourist has been found dead some miles from his hotel in the southern Spanish city of Granada. <\/p>\n

The 57-year-old holidaymaker is believed to have lost consciousness as he was riding his bike on the N-340 road close to the town of Almunecar. <\/p>\n

Despite the efforts of local emergency services to revive him, the man was pronounced dead at the scene. <\/p>\n

The Briton was believed to have been staying in a hotel in the province of Malaga, roughly 12 miles away from where he died. <\/p>\n

Authorities were alerted to the man in trouble just after midday on Thursday. <\/p>\n

After emergency services arrived at the scene, eyewitnesses told them the man had fallen off his bike. <\/p>\n

However, it later emerged that the tragedy was most likely connected to a health problem he had experienced as he was cycling around the popular holiday destination. <\/p>\n

The Spanish Civil Guard are awaiting the autopsy results of the 57-year-old holidaymaker before making their next steps. <\/p>\n

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Eyewitnesses told emergency services that the man had fallen off his bike (file photo)<\/p>\n

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Local authorities have said there is no evidence of foul play in the man’s death. <\/p>\n

The man is believed to have been out cycling with friends at the time of the incident, according to Spanish media reports. <\/p>\n

Emergency services spent some 30 minutes attempting to bring the Briton back to life, with a defibrillator being used in the process. <\/p>\n

Spanish authorities have not disclosed the man’s name.<\/p>\n

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The Spanish Civil Guard are awaiting the autopsy results of the 57-year-old holidaymaker<\/p>\n

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Almunecar\u2019s Security Councillor Mari Carmen Martin Orce said she profoundly regrets what happened to the 57-year-old holidaymaker, before offering her condolences to the man’s loved ones. <\/p>\n

The tragedy comes just weeks after a British cyclist died in Costa Blanca.<\/p>\n

That man was on a road racing bike in a residential area to the south of Alicante when the incident occurred. <\/p>\n

Investigators were told that the man had fallen off his bike as he rode up a hillside.<\/p>\n

Local media reports said the police were still investigating his cause of death.<\/p>\n

And earlier this year, a 39-year-old Paul Williams died while competing in the Mallorca 312 cycling event after falling onto the road. <\/p>\n

The incident occurred between Esporles and Valldemossa on the popular holiday island. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A British tourist has been found dead some miles from his hotel in the southern Spanish city of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,640,51,47,52,48,231],"class_list":{"0":"post-249198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-spain","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories","15":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}