A BRITISH holidaymaker has been found dead in a Costa del Sol hotel.
Police are investigating after being alerted by staff at the hotel in the popular resort of Fuengirola.
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The man, aged 60, had been due to check out of the room at the unnamed hotel yesterday.
Emergency responders including medical staff were sent to the scene but all they could do was confirm his death.
A post-mortem is due to take place in the coming hours and will determine how the police investigation proceeds.
The results of the autopsy will be sent to a judge placed in charge of the probe.
Well-placed sources said no signs of violence were found in the room or on the dead man’s body signalling a crime had taken place.
The tourist is thought to have been staying in the room alone.
Earlier this week it emerged a British woman and her son had been found dead at their home in Alhaurin el Grande a half-hour drive inland from Fuengirola.
Police believe the 90-year-old starved to death after her 63-year-old son died of natural causes.
Their bodies were discovered after local social services raised the alarm days after an ambulance was called to their home to assist the unnamed woman.
Her son is understood to have been her registered carer.
Last Thursday two British pensioners were found dead at their Costa Blanca home.
Firefighters discovered the bodies of the man and woman, who police sources described as friends that lived together, at the residential property near the small town of San Fulgencio a 45-minute drive south of Alicante.
Staff at a local council social services department had raised the alarm.
There were no signs of violence at the scene and a subsequent post-mortem reinforced indicators the pair died of natural causes.
The man was 82 and the woman 74. Both are believed to have suffered chronic illnesses and had been categorised by social services as “vulnerable.”
The area where they were living is on a residential estate which is extremely popular with foreign pensioners.
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