An 85-year-old British
tourist died while swimming off the coast of Tuscany's Elba
island earlier on Tuesday.
His wife alerted Carabinieri police after her husband
failed to return from a swim off the beach in the seaside town
of Marina di Campo.
One of the officers saw the man floating some distance from
shore and swam to retrieve him with the aid of two other
bathers.
Emergency volunteers tried unsuccessful to reanimate him,
and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
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