Greece holidays: Warning to UK holidaymakers as British tourist, 76, drowns while swimming in sea off Greek island Kalymnos

A British tourist has drowned while swimming in the sea off a Greek island in front of his wife, according to local reports. The victim, aged 76, was swimming in the sea on the Aegean island Kalymnos.

He had come to the isolated beach on a tourist boat from Kos. Local reports said the unidentified man drowned in front of his wife after struggling to get back on the boat.

The incident occurred on 16 April, with emergency services and a team of coastguards, police and divers in two boats called to try and pull him from the water. The victim was taken by the coastguard to the port of Vathi where he was pronounced dead at Kalymnos General Hospital, according to local news site Palmoskalymnou.

Investigations will be carried out by the Kalymnos Port Authority. It was not immediately clear what caused the man to drown. The man's identity has not been released or reported in Greek media. The island is around 70 miles from Marmaris and between two and five hours away by sea from the island of Rhodes.