Madrid voter aged 92 dies from heart attack after casting poll
Electoral officials say voting in the capital operating “normally”
A 92-year-old man died after voting in Spain’s general elections on Sunday at a polling station in Madrid, say emergency services. Accompanied by his wife, the nonagenarian suffered a heart attack after casting his vote and collapsed.
Police officers tried to resuscitate him while waiting for an ambulance to arrive. Medics declared the man dead after 40 minutes.
The 1,028 polling stations in the capital are operating “normally”, say electoral officials
His wife, who was tended to by a therapist, was made comfortable at the school where she waited until her husband’s body had been removed by undertakers. Meanwhile, medics tended another elderly voter who had felt faint while casting his vote.
Meanwhile, a 79-year-old man collapsed and died at a polling station in Santa Coloma de Farners, in Girona province, says Europa Press.
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In Valencia, a heavily pregnant electoral official's waters broke while the polling station was opening.
The central government’s delegate in Madrid, Concepción Dancausa, told reporters that the 1,028 polling stations in the capital were operating “normally” and that there had been practically no incidents at the 6,530 booths.
But National Police were told that political leaflets were being distributed at the doors of 22 polling stations in the Madrid region; 19 in the city itself, two in Getafe and one in Alcalá de Henares.
English version by Heather Galloway.
