A British tourist has been found dead on a beach in a famous Greek island resort town.
The 68-year-old man was tragically found dead on a beach in Lindos on the island of Rhodes on Thursday afternoon.
Local media reported that he had apparently gone for a swim, and lost consciousness before passing away.
Officers from the Central Port Authority of Rhodes rushed to the scene following reports of his body being found.
He was transferred to the island’s Archangelos Health Center where he was pronounced dead.
An autopsy is set to be carried out to determine his exact cause of death.
has contacted the UK’s Foreign Office for comment.
It comes days after two British tourists were found in separate incidents on the Algarve.
One man, said to be 21, was discovered shortly before 7am in the party resort of Albufeira last Wednesday.
The man, who was fully clothed and had all his belongings with him, according to police, was found at the bottom of the steps in an avenue called Avenida da Liberdade.
An autopsy has already taken place but the results have not been made public.
Portuguese police are understood to have ruled out any link to a crime and are said to be treating the death as a tragedy linked to excessive alcohol consumption.
It was not immediately clear today where the tourist, who is aged in his twenties, had been heading from and to and whether he was staying at a hotel in Albufeira.
No explanation has been given as to why he might have been naked, although police have not yet confirmed he had no clothes on.
His body was discovered just four hours before that of Scot Greg Monks, 38, from Glasgow, who disappeared in the same resort on a stag do the week prior.
He is thought to have jumped over a wall and fallen down a steep cliff after becoming disorientated as he tried to head back to his holiday hotel.
‘He’s [Mr Monks] another victim of the strip,’ one local hotel worker told this week.
‘It encourages heavy drinking and drugs are too easily available, it’s easy to lose control.
‘Brits come on stag dos and buy drugs straight away, and have no idea what they are cut with, there are some really dangerous people here.’
There is no suggestion that Mr Monks had taken drugs on the night he disappeared.