A teenage British tourist is reportedly fighting for his life after being found floating unconscious in a swimming pool in northern Portugal.
The unnamed 15-year-old is said to have been rushed to Braga Hospital on Friday afternoon in a ‘critical condition.’
The pool has been described as private and is in the quaint village of Aborim in the municipality of Barcelos.
The village has a population of just under 900 inhabitants.
Firefighters are said to have been among the emergency responders called to the scene.
Portugal’s National Guard have opened an investigation into the incident.
Daily Mail has approached the Foreign Office for comment.
The incident involving a British tourist in Portugal comes a month after two Brits – King Edonmi, 29 and Mo Lisau, 27 – were discovered lifeless in their Albufeira hotel pool.
The British teen was rushed to Braga hospital, where he is understood to be in critical condition
The incident happened in the village of Aborim in northern Portugal
Portuguese police sources subsequently said ahead of post-mortems they believed the design of the pool combined with the fact they couldn’t swim had likely led to their deaths.
It also comes after a British family were killed in a crash hours after they flew to Portugal from their UK home and rented a hire car at Faro Airport on the Algarve to start their holidays.
Domingos Serrano, 55, his wife Maria, 51, and their 20-year-old twin sons Afonso and Domingos, all British passport holders according to police, died in the fireball accident as they headed north towards the town of Mourao where the boys’ parents were born before emigrating.
The 19-year-old Polish-born girlfriend of one of the twins, identified only by her first name Veronica, also died in the accident along with 26-year-old mine worker Ruben Goncalves who was driving the car their rented Nissan Juke collided head-on with on a bend on the IP2 main road.
