A BRITISH man has been found dead between two parked cars at a holiday resort in the Costa Blanca, and police are investigating.
The 50-year-old’s body was discovered on the ground in the town of Javea, up the coast from Benidorm in south-east Spain.
The alert was sounded just before 7.45am this morning in Javea – around a 45 minute drive north of Benidorm.
The Civil Guard said this afternoon there were no obvious signs of violence at the scene but insisted they were still awaiting the results of the autopsy.
It is not yet clear if the dead man was a local resident or was holidaying in the area.
Police rushed to the scene after a 999 call went into a regional government-run emergency response centre.
The area was cordoned off so that forensic officers could carry out their investigations in the street.
A spokesman for the Civil Guard in Alicante, which covers Javea, confirmed today the dead man was a 50-year-old British national.
He said: “At around 7:45am this morning, through a regional emergency response coordination centre, a report was received regarding the discovery of a possible deceased person on a street in the municipality of Javea.
“The officers dispatched to the scene confirmed the death of a 50-year-old British man.
“The Territorial Team of the Judicial Police of Calpe has taken charge of the investigations to clarify the circumstances of the incident.”
British consulate officials are understood to have been informed.
Back in May 2023 a British woman died after collapsing while taking a dip in the sea at at the resort’s Arenal beach.
Reports at the time said she had keeled over while she was in shallow water near the sea’s edge.
Her relatives are understood to have pulled her out of the water while witnesses phoned the emergency services.
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