Police have launched an investigation after a British man was found dead in a Costa Blanca holiday resort.
The 50-year-old’s body was discovered between two parked cars in the town of Javea north of Benidorm.
An alert was sounded just before 7.45am on Sunday.
The Civil Guard said this afternoon there were no obvious signs of violence at the scene but insisted they were still awaiting the results of the autopsy.
It is not yet clear if the dead man was a local resident or was holidaying in the area.
Police were sent to the scene after a 999 call went into a regional government-run emergency response centre.
The area was then cordoned off so forensic experts could work in the street where the man’s body was found.
The Civil Guard has yet to make any official comment and is not expected to do so until it has received the post-mortem results, which are unlikely to be made public as is normal in Spain.
Police are investigating the death of a British man found dead in a Costa Blanca holiday resort. The 50-year-old’s body was discovered between two parked cars in the town of Javea north of Benidorm. Pictured: The street where body was found
An alert was sounded just before 7.45am. The Civil Guard said this afternoon there were no obvious signs of violence at the scene but insisted they were still awaiting the results of the autopsy. Pictured: Javea town
Police were sent to the scene after a 999 call went into a regional government-run emergency response centre
British consulate officials are understood to have been informed.
Javea is around a 45-minute drive north of Benidorm.
In May 2023, a British woman died after collapsing while taking a dip in the sea at at the resort’s Arenal beach.
Reports at the time said she had keeled over while she was in shallow water near the sea’s edge.
Her relatives are understood to have pulled her out of the water while witnesses phoned the emergency services.
A spokesperson for the Civil Guard in Alicante, which covers Javea, confirmed today the dead man was a 50-year-old British national.
He said on Sunday: ‘At around 7:45am this morning, through a regional emergency response coordination centre, a report was received regarding the discovery of a possible deceased person on a street in the municipality of Javea.
‘The offiicers dispatched to the scene confirmed the death of a 50-year-old British man.
‘The Territorial Team of the Judicial Police of Calpe has taken charge of the investigations to clarify the circumstances of the incident.’