The British dad who drowned alongside two of his children at Spain's Costa del Sol has been identified as a devout Christian pastor, according to reports. The family is based in London, but the teenage boy was traveling on a U.S. passport, the paper said. Dad Diya, originally from Ile-Ife, Nigeria, was a pastor at Open Heavens in southeast London, part of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, a Nigeria-based network of religious groups. It added that Diya’s wife, Olubunmi — who witnesses said was desperately praying as CPR was administered to her husband and kids — is also an assistant pastor. Diya and his teenage son are believed to have died after trying to save Comfort when she became trapped underwater at the Club La Costa World in Las Lagunas de Mijas near Málaga.

Source: Fox News December 26, 2019 19:13 UTC