The 17-year-old boy was swimming with a friend in the rough seas at a beach near the town of Chania on the Greek holiday island of Crete when disaster struck
A British teenager has died while on holiday on a Greek island after getting into trouble in the water.
The 17-year-old was swimming in the sea on the holiday island of Crete when disaster struck.
The teen had been diving into the water with a friend on the beach despite red flags showing it was dangerous to swim.
The pair had been in the water when they suddenly started screaming for help. Six lifeguards ran to assist them, managing to pull one of the boys to safety from the rough waters.
Tragically the second boy drowned before rescuers were able to reach him. The tragic incident occurred near the town of Chania on the northwest coast of the Greek island.
Emergency crews were unable to find the second boy for a time. Teams used a drone to try and locate the young Brit but he was nowhere to be found.
The Greek Coast Guard intervened with two boats and one maritime vessel asking if they had seen him but without any success.
After an agonising search the teen’s lifeless body was discovered washed up near the mouth of the Kladisos River a short distance from where he had gone missing. Emergency workers tried to resuscitate him but it was too late.
“Despite the red flags, they decided to dive, defying the danger,” a local witness told Greek media.
The local reported hearing the boys screaming for help before locals and life guards rushed into the choppy waters to try and rescue them.
The witness said: “They managed to get one of them out relatively quickly. The second one disappeared.
“Eventually the sea washed him up about 100 metres away. He was probably trapped at the bottom.”
The boy was transported by ambulance to a nearby hospital but medics were unable to save him.
It comes as a devastated dad told how his teenage daughter’s birthday celebrations turned into a ‘death day’ after the star pupil drowned in a ‘terrible accident’.
Thirteen-year-old Palwasha Akbar was playing in the River Wharfe at Burnsall, North Yorkshire, when she got into difficulty on May 31st.
She was rescued but later died in hospital. She was one of 19 victims of water-related deaths during a week-long ‘catastrophic’ heatwave in May.
