Two British tourists have reportedly died on the Algarve after jumping into their holiday apartment pool after a night out.
The alarm was raised around 4.30am this morning at a hotel-apartment in the party resort of Albufeira where two British men died last month.
Emergency responders sent to the scene made unsuccessful attempts to revive the two men.
Police are said to be working on the theory the pair, aged 27 and 29, got into difficulties because they had been drinking and didn’t know how to swim.
Portugal’s Policia Judiciaria have been asked by colleagues at the GNR police force to investigate the circumstances surrounding the men’s deaths but they are not being treated as suspicious at this stage.
Local reports emerging from Portugal suggest the two men who died this morning were both British and were holidaying with friends.
Portuguese police could not be reached this afternoon for an official statement.
The alarm was raised around 4.30am this morning at a hotel-apartment in the party resort of Albufeira (pictured) where two British men died last month.
MailOnline has approached the Foreign Office for comment.
On June 4 Scots tourist Greg Monks was tragically found dead near Albufeira town centre after going missing a week earlier.
The 38-year-old plant mechanic from Glasgow is believed to have lost his life after jumping over a wall and falling down a steep hillside during a night out with his stag do friends.
A search for him was launched on May 28 and his parents and girlfriend Nicole Kelso flew to Albufeira to help with the efforts to find him.
Around four hours before Greg’s body was found by police, another young British tourist was found dead in Albufeira, at the back of a residential block below a steep drop near the Old Town.
The 21-year-old, also said to have gone out drinking with pals and thought to have become disorientated as he tried to get back to his hotel, was never named. News of his death only emerged three days after Greg was found dead.
In July 2023 a 27-year-old British tourist drowned at the Paraiso Hotel in Albufeira.
Last month town hall chiefs in the party resort agreed fines of up to £3,375 for holidaymakers who flout a strict new good behaviour code.
They included fines of up to £1,250 for people who enter bars and other business premises with their tops off.
Fines for spitting or urinating in the street were agreed at between £125 and £630.
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