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A MOTRIL family has been dealt a tragic double blow after a woman died of a heart attack seconds after witnessing her father choke to death on a pill. The 85-year-old and his daughter, 54, died within minutes of each other, as the distraught wife and mother looked on helplessly. Emergency services were called to the family home in Calle Las Cruces of Motril at around 10.30pm on Monday night, after receiving reports the elderly victim was feeling unwell and unable to breathe. According to sources, paramedics were performing resuscitation manoeuvres on the pensioner when his daughter arrived, having been notified by her concerned mother. She is said to have suffered a cardiac arrest as her father passed away, when it was finally agreed nothing more could be done to save his life. For 40 minutes, para-
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DOUBLE TRAGEDY
IN SHOCK: Residents in Motril have been left in shock by the news a father and his daughter have died in a double tragedy.
La Herradura Carnival 2020 LA HERRADURA Town Hall has announced the Carnival programme that the town will celebrate this weekend. On Saturday February 22 the Adult Carnival Contest will be held in the Plaza de la Independencia. It will be after the parade which will depart at 9.00pm from the Civic Centre. On Sunday from 12.00 the Carnival will be dedicated to the youngest ones with the celebration of the Children’s Carnival parade. There will be games, workshops and costume contests. From 9.00pm, the Civic Centre of La Herradura will host Carnivalesque Night, with the
performances of the group Los de Huelín, which has won the first prize of the Carnival Contest of Malaga 2020, and El Alcalde, troupe of Granada. Admission will be free.
CARNIVAL TIME: Lots to do for adults and children.
WWW.EUROWEEKLYNEWS.COM medics attempted to revive the 54-year-old, who suffered with asthma, but their efforts were in vain and the two lifeless bodies were transferred to the Forensic Anatomical Institute of Granada where post-mortems will be carried out to determine the exact causes of death. In the absence of a postmortem result, police sources said everything pointed to death by natural causes. The town is said to have been left in ‘total shock’ after hearing the news that the mother-of-two and her father had passed away.