A 71-year-old tourist from Israel died in the swimming pool of a small hotel in Mirtos, Ierapetra on Thursday afternoon.
Local media report that medical team who attended the incident think that the man’s death may not have been caused by drowning but on an underlying medical condition, possibly an aneurysm or a heart condition .
The man is believed to have lost consciousness as soon as he got in the water and his wife alerted the hotel staff and the emergency services and all attempts to revive him were in vain.
The body of the unfortunate man was taken to Heraklion for an autopsy to determine the cause of death
