#Drowning

Thirty-three people died from drowning in Cyprus during 2025, with authorities warning that prevention measures remain necessary. Marking world drowning prevention day (July 25), the health ministry presented the figures on Friday. ...

Two young Somali women lost their lives on Thursday afternoon after going for a swim in Oroklini area, Larnaca district. A search and rescue operation failed to get to the ...

Cyprus is among the three EU countries with the lowest recorded number of deaths by drowning in 2022, Eurostat said on Tuesday. With summer in full swing, “swimming pools and beaches ...

A 72-year-old British woman was found dead in the sea near the Kyrenia district town of Lapithos, the Turkish Cypriot police announced on Tuesday. The woman, named as Pauline Ann ...

At least 78 people drowned when a boat carrying 278 passengers capsized in Lake Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday, a provincial governor said. Relatives sobbed on shore as ...

Drownings in the EU rose in 2021 compared to 2020, with Cyprus being among three countries to record a decrease, from 14 to nine, according to data published by Eurostat. In 2021, there were 5,004 ...

The autopsy on the seven-year-old girl who had a drowning incident at a Protaras hotel pool did not clarify her cause of death, police said on Tuesday. Samples were taken ...

A seven-year-old girl died at Makarios hospital in Nicosia on Monday after an incident in a pool in Protaras on Sunday. The girl had been found unconscious in the pool ...

Cyprus records about 30 drownings per year, a number the government aims to bring down to zero through an action plan drafted in cooperation with Greek NGO Safe Water Sports. Data ...

Half of drowning deaths in Cyprus involve tourists and non-permanent residents, data revealed on Wednesday as government announced action plan to improve sea safety. Over the past 20 years, 464 people have ...

A man found dead on a beach in Ayia Napa on Monday died from drowning, an autopsy showed on Tuesday. Georgios Senekkis, 57, from Dasaki Achnas died while harpoon fishing in ...

A 42-year-old woman was sentenced to 12 months in prison by the Paphos district court on Tuesday, after her 10-year-old daughter drowned in the swimming pool of their villa in the ...

Greece is in shock on Wednesday following the death of a 36-year-old man who was pushed by crew members while trying to board a ship that was leaving the port ...

An autopsy on Friday confirmed that drowning was the cause of death of a 10-year-old girl who was found dead at the bottom of a pool at a villa in ...

A ten-year-old-girl drowned on Thursday in a swimming pool at a private residence in the Coral Bay area of Paphos. According to the police, at around 4pm they received a ...

A 29-year-old man who died at Aphrodite’s Rock in Paphos on Sunday drowned, an autopsy revealed on Monday. Carried out by state pathologist Orthodoxos Orthodoxou, the findings were in ...

A 60-year-old man drowned on Thursday while scuba diving in Paralimni, the police said. The deceased was identified as Axel Schoeller, aged 60, an Austrian national and permanent resident of Paralimni. ...

The Famagusta Lifeguard Association has recognised the courage and skill of a teenager who saved the life of a two-year-old child two weeks ago. The incident happened in Paralimni on ...

Police investigators on Friday submitted to the legal service the case file into the drowning of a three-year-old girl at a hotel in Paphos on August 14, Cybc reported. Police took ...

Paphos police on Thursday said that there were two lifeguards on duty at the hotel swimming pool where the three year old girl drowned on Sunday. Police spokesman Kyriacos Charalambous ...

The case file on the drowning of a three-year-old girl in a hotel swimming pool on Sunday is expected to reach the attorney-general’s office by the end of the ...

The three-year-old girl found unconscious on Sunday in a hotel swimming pool in Paphos was on Tuesday confirmed to have died by drowning, according to two state pathologists. Angeliki Papetta ...

A 57-year-old man has died after being found unconscious near a Limassol beach, police said on Wednesday. According to the police report, Michalakis Kleanthous was spotted around 5pm floating on ...

A British tourist died after losing consciousness while swimming in Paphos, police said on Friday. The 63-year-old man lost consciousness while swimming at the Blue Lagoon beach in Paphos, assistant ...