A British tourist is fighting for his life after being shot twice in the face in the Costa del Sol resort of Marbella. The 50-year-old victim was wounded following an earlier brawl at a commercial premises, believed to be a bar, according to police.
The incident occurred on Saturday just before 9pm on Avenida del Prado in Nueva Andalucia, a residential area of Marbella. Five British nationals were arrested near the scene of the shooting.
The alarm was raised by a member of the public who reported a fight and that a man had been injured by a firearm. The victim was rushed to Costa del Sol Hospital and later transferred to Carlos Haya Hospital in Malaga, where he underwent emergency surgery on Sunday morning.
He is understood to have been shot twice in the face, suffering injuries to his nose and an eye. Sources said the victim was a tourist staying on a luxury residential estate in Estepona, a 25-minute drive west of Marbella.
A National Police spokesman confirmed all five detainees were British and that the shooting followed an earlier fight in an unnamed commercial premises. Saturday night's shooting was the fourth in the province of Malaga in the past month.
