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A British man is missing and his 11-year-old son has died after the pair got into difficulty in front of horrified relatives while swimming off a beach in Malta.
Rescuers are continuing to search for the 37-year-old Briton, who vanished at Ramla Bay yesterday afternoon.
His wife had been on the beach with two young children when the nightmare began to unfold.
The British family of Pakistani origin had been enjoying the final hours of a Malta holiday when the tragedy struck.
Other family members are understood to have flown out to Malta on Tuesday to support them.
Police were alerted at around 1.15pm, and the Armed Forces of Malta and Civil Protection Department launched an intensive search using dinghies and a helicopter.
The boy was pulled from the water and treated at the scene before being taken to Gozo General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead a short time later.
As of Tuesday morning, the search remained ongoing.
The Meteorological Office had issued a warning about strong north-west winds hitting Malta on Monday.
The 11-year-old's death marks the 16th drowning since the start of the year.
It comes after a British tourist died while swimming in Malta's famed Blue Lagoon after using a slide on a tourist boat in September.
The 43-year-old had taken the slide down into the water at around 1.30pm before finding himself struggling in the lagoon, located in Comino.
A number of travellers spotted he was underwater before pulling him up to the surface of the water and beginning CPR, reports Times of Malta.
Volunteer first aiders from Malta's Emergency Response and Rescue Corps (ERRC) quickly arrived at the scene and took over efforts to save him.
They carried the unnamed man to Mgarr Harbour in Gozo where a hospital medical team was waiting, but he was tragically pronounced upon arrival at Victoria Hospital.
According to local reports, following the incident, Magistrate Brigitte Sultana is holding an inquiry.
Just a month earlier, a 35-year-old Italian man died after getting into difficulty, while also at the Blue Lagoon in August.
In April the body of a 71-year-old fisherman was found off the coast of Comino, hours after he was reported missing.
And a Spanish tourist sustained grievous injuries in July after she was hit by a boat propeller as she was boarding a boat in Comino, a popular destination for tourists.