A 27-year-old Brit has been found dead in a Colombian apartment.
Austen Arango Smith’s lifeless body was discovered on the fourth-floor of the Atenas building in the town of Villamaria on Sunday morning.
GettyAusten Arango Smith’s lifeless body was discovered in Villamaria, Colombia[/caption]
GettyThe town is about 190miles west of the capital Bogota.[/caption]
His body was taken to a forensic medicine institute in the nearby city of Manizales so a post-mortem could take place.
The results of the autopsy have not yet been made public.
One regional newspaper reported he had been found with breathing difficulties in his room and was already dead by the time emergency responders arrived.
Villamaria is a popular tourist destination in the department of Caldas – 190 miles west of the capital Bogota.
Local reports last month said 33 “violent and accidental” deaths of tourists had been registered in the cities of Cali, Cartagena and Medellin alone in the first five months of this year.
Twelve of those deaths were described as homicides.
There is nothing at this stage to suggest the British national’s death is being treated as a crime.
Last year a Brit tourist died after being pistol-whipped by a gang of three men after he hiked to the Hill of Three Crosses in Medellin.
The victim man, named locally as Kyle Mackenzie, was left to die by the attackers and was found in a critical condition two days after disappearing.
The death comes after a 47-year-old Brit tourist drowned Sunday while swimming at remote beach in South Africa.
Wildlife rangers spotted the unnamed Brit getting into difficulties in the Indian Ocean before alerting the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI), local media reports.
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