There was widespread panic on Agia Marina beach in Chania when the wife of a drowning man started calling out for help.
Her 71-year-old husband was unconscious when he was pulled out of the water just before one o’clock after noon. The elderly, who was from Norway, probably suffered a heart attack in the water just a few meters from the shore.
A lifeguard who was there at the time, administered first aids, while the Coast Guard men and an ambulance immediately came to the rescue.
According to information, when he was transferred to the hospital, doctors made great efforts to bring him back to life, but it was too late.
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