British father and son in holiday sea tragedy

A BRITISH father and son have drowned off Spain's Costa del Sol when they were overcome in rough seas.

The bodies of Robert Wells, 75, and Jonathan Wells, 45, who are believed to have been holidaying with friends, were found about 150m from the shore on Tuesday.

The son was trying to save his father who had got into difficulties in the water, according to reports.

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Local police said the men’s bodies had been found floating in the water off Almunecar in the region of Andalusia in the south of the country.

A Civil Protection boat was launched but the pair could not be saved. and a spokesman said they had drowned.

The local emergency services department said a third person had plunged into the sea to try to rescue the two men from the waves but had been unable to reach them.

Spaniard Jesus Balderas, 25, told local reporters he had tried to save the men.

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He said: “The first person to enter the water was the older man, who was drowning, and then the younger man went in to save him and neither came back out.

“I went in to help them but the older man was already injured but I saw he wasn’t calling for help or anything.”

The Spaniard re-emerged from the water when he realised it was “almost impossible” to rescue the two Britons, he said.

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