British father, two children drown in Spanish pool on Christmas eve
MADRID (Reuters) - Three members of the same British family - the father and two children - were found dead on Tuesday in a swimming pool of a Costa del Sol resort in southern Spain where they were staying, local authorities said.
The Andalusia regional government said on Twitter police arrived at the scene in Mijas, near Malaga, in early afternoon after receiving a telephone call and found the bodies of a 53-year-old man, a nine-year-old and a 16-year-old floating in the pool.
"The officers discovered that the three ... had died and nothing could be done to save them," it said, ...