BRIT, 60, DIES AT SPANISH AIRPORT WHILE WAITING TO BOARD FLIGHT HOME

Tourist was pronounced dead after collapsing in boarding area at Reus Airport

A British holidaymaker has died at a Spanish airport as he waited to board a plane back to the UK.

The tourist, aged around 60, was pronounced dead after collapsing in the boarding area at Reus Airport on the country’s Costa Dorada coast near the east coast city of Tarragona.

Paramedics and police made an unsuccessful attempt to revive him.

An autopsy is expected to reveal he died of natural causes with police sources saying there is nothing pointing to it being criminally-related.

The drama occurred on Monday night as the unnamed Brit prepared to board a Ryanair flight to Leeds.

Local reports said he was returning to the UK after time at a hospital in Tarragona for treatment for unknown health problems.

Last October, a 61-year-old British holidaymaker died on a plane which was about to leave the same airport. He fell ill on a Jet2 plane bound for East Midlands Airport.

The incident led to a long delay, with the aircraft leaving nearly seven hours after its scheduled departure.

In September 2019 a 67-year-old Thomas Cook customer died after arriving at Reus Airport.

She was assisted by a German nurse who was on holiday but died at the scene after paramedics arrived and made an unsuccessful attempt to save her using a defibrillator when she went into cardiac arrest.

Local reports said she fell ill on her way to the airport and died while waiting to be flown home on a rescue flight organised after Thomas Cook went into administration.

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