Scottish woman drowns in pool

A SCOTTISH woman on holiday in Cyprus died on Thursday after losing consciousness while swimming in her parent’s pool.

According to police, Lynn MacDonald, 23, was swimming in the pool at her parent’s villa, in the Kokkines area of Ayia Napa, when she suddenly felt ill and then lost unconscious.
The girl’s parents had lost their other daughter two years ago when she was just 17 due to heart complications.

Doctors initially suspected that her older sister may have died of a similar problem although the official cause of death has been announced as drowning.
MacDonald had arrived in Cyprus on Wednesday with three friends of hers for a two week holiday on the island.

Commenting on the Scottish girl’s death was the Famagusta Deputy Police Chief Zacharias Chrysostomou who said, “At around 3.30pm yesterday, a young girl lost consciousness while swimming with her friends in a pool. MacDonald was taken out of the pool by her friends and they tried to resuscitate using first aid, however, to no effect.”

State Pathologist Sophocles Sophocleous, who examined the girl, yesterday told the Cyprus Mail that her death was due to drowning and could not say if it was induced by a heart episode.
Lynn’s distraught parents, who currently live in Nigeria, were last night expected to arrive on the island receive their daughter’s body.

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