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THREE members of the same British family have died at a Costa del Sol holiday resort.
The tragedy occurred after a nine-year-old girl got into difficulties in the resort’s swimming pool and her older brother and their father jumped into the water to save her.
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The horror incident happened around 1.30pm today at Club La Costa World, a sprawling holiday resort overlooking the Med a short drive from Fuengirola.
Police divers were this afternoon inspecting the pool including the swimming pool pump amid unconfirmed reports it may have played a part in the little girl’s death.
Well-placed sources described the girl and her 52-year-old father as British but said the older boy, 16, was travelling on an American passport.
The children’s mum is understood to have been one of the people who raised the alarm and is thought to have been interviewed by investigators.
There was no immediate official comment from resort chiefs about the Christmas Eve tragedy.
One insider close to the ongoing probe into the triple tragedy said: “The girl’s brother and then the father jumped into the water when they saw she was in difficulties. All three have died.
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“An investigation is ongoing so it is too early to say what has happened but specialist Civil Guard divers were mobilised after the gravity of what had occurred became apparent and one of the things they have looked at is the pool pump.”
The bodies of the three people who died in this afternoon’s incident have already been transferred to the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Malaga.
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Autopsies are expected to take place tomorrow.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has been approached for comment. Club La Costa has also been asked for comment.
The resort where the three deaths occurred is the same one where a nine-year-old British girl died in February after suffering a severe allergic reaction to an ice-cream.
Habiba Chishti, from Halifax, was staying with her family at the resort and went into anaphylactic shock there although she had eaten her treat at a nearby shopping centre.
An inquest held at Halifax Town Hall in May heard she was allergic to eggs and nuts with local reports at the time saying it was believed it was the sauce on the ice-cream that contained the ingredients that killed her.
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