British tourist, 54, found dead on his sunbed in Crete

A British man in his 50s has been discovered useless on a sunbed in Crete.

The unnamed 54-year-old was discovered unconscious on a seaside within the widespread village of Stalida on Saturday night time, in response to stories in Greece.

Seashore officers turned involved and notified the emergency providers after the vacationer remained “immobile” on a sunlounger for a number of hours, the Creta Put up reported.

Medics carried out CPR on the vacationer to no avail, and he was pronounced useless at Heraklion College Hospital, the publication stated.

The International Workplace confirmed to The Impartial on Monday that it was “supporting the household of a British man who has died in Crete”.

An post-mortem will reportedly be carried out to find out his reason behind demise.

Temperatures in Crete peaked at 30C over the weekend, and firefighters on the island have been battling wildfires within the inland municipality of Agios Vassiliou, which is located some 55 miles west of Stalida.

The fires are reported to have burned 1000’s of acres of agricultural land, together with olive groves, beehives and pastures, and are stated to have reached Agia Galini on the island’s south coast.

Within the UK, the Met Workplace has stated temperatures might attain 43C this week – an enormous leap from the earlier report of 38.7C set simply three years in the past – and specialists have warned the heatwave could result in 1000’s of extra deaths.

Heatwaves are the deadliest excessive climate occasion within the UK, and official figures present that two warmth episodes in 2021, which had been each much less excessive than this week’s, led to some 1,600 extra deaths.

“I believe that, assuming the climate forecasts are roughly appropriate, it’s very possible that there can be lots of or 1000’s of extra deaths from the warmth within the subsequent few days,” Professor Kevin McConway, emeritus professor of utilized statistics on the Open College, informed The Guardian on Friday.

“It’s doable that, as a result of there have been so many warnings concerning the coming excessive temperatures, folks and companies can be taking extra precautions than often occur in a heatwave, which might decrease the numbers of extra deaths. I hope that occurs, however I concern there’ll nonetheless be extra demise on fairly a scale.”

The federal government has declared the UK’s first-ever nationwide warmth emergency, whereas the Met Workplace additionally issued a “crimson” alert for warmth for the primary time, warning of “population-wide opposed well being results”, which it stated might trigger “critical sickness or hazard to life”.

Scientists have warned that such occasions will solely turn into extra frequent and extreme because of local weather breakdown, and earlier this 12 months the Met Workplace raised the brink for climate to be thought-about a heatwave in components of the UK to replicate the nation’s warming local weather.