{"id":146764,"date":"2025-05-31T12:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T12:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/146764\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T12:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T12:17:08","slug":"brit-60-dies-in-portugal-after-being-punched-and-kicked-in-head-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/146764\/","title":{"rendered":"Brit, 60, dies in Portugal after being &#8216;punched and kicked in head&#8217; | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A British man has died after reportedly being assaulted in the Algarve resort of Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>He is said to have been kicked or punched in the head in the town\u2019s bar and nightclub area.<\/p>\n<p>The attack happened around 3am this morning. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The dead man, believed to be aged 60, was assisted at the scene by emergency medical responders who tried to revive him.<br \/>He was pronounced dead after being rushed to Lagos Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics, firefighters and officers from Portugal\u2019s PSP police force responded to the emergency call.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear today if any arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p>A PSP official was not able to say whether he lived in Portugal or was on holiday in the area and where he was from in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>He said around midday today local time: \u201cHe died in hospital in Lagos following an assault.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a suspect who is Portuguese who is with police at the moment but I am not able to say whether he has been formally arrested at this stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another said officers from Portugal\u2019s Policia Judiciaria force were now working on the case and the police focus was on obtaining the evidence needed to take the principal suspect before a judge on Monday.It is not yet clear if the assault took place inside a nightspot or in the street. Police have not gone into details about the incident although the dead man is understood to have suffered severe head injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A British man has died after reportedly being assaulted in the Algarve resort of Lagos. He is said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[63120,63121,12,3046,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-146764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-algarve","9":"tag-brit-dies","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-portugal","12":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114602406280764289","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}