17-year-old dies after holiday drink binge

Paul Anast|Jack Lefley13 April 2012

A London teenager has died after a heavy drinking session on a Greek holiday island.

The 17-year-old choked and suffered a heart attack after a night out with friends in Zakynthos.

The boy, who has not been named, collapsed on the pavement early yesterday after partying in the Laganas seaside resort.

Greek police said the teenager's friends abandoned him in the street where officers found him carrying no identification.

A spokesman at the Laganas police station said: "We were only able to trace his parents in England through the dialled numbers we found on his mobile phone."

The boy lost consciousness and collapsed outside a bar shortly after midnight.

He was taken to hospital by ambulance but was pronounced dead on arrival.

His body is being kept in the morgue at Patras University on mainland Greece and is expected to be flown back to Britain at the end of the week.

The local medical coroner's report said the teenager apparently choked and suffered a cardiac arrest from the excessive intake of alcohol.

Zakynthos this month has been the scene of a number of club orgies prompted by alcohol-fuelled parties. Several British couples have been arrested for having sex on beaches.

Last week two couples were sentenced to 20-day prison terms, which they were allowed to avoid by paying £200 fines.

The latest death follows a string of incidents in which Britons abroad have been injured or killed since Sunday.

A girl of three drowned while on holiday with her parents in Spain and a twoyearold girl on holiday in Turkey died after falling into a pool and hitting her head.

British children's author and artist Richard Kidd, 56, died in the Philippines after being swept away at a waterfall, while a British teenager on holiday in Ibiza died after taking ecstasy and cocaine.

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