REVEALED: One tourist dies EVERY WEEK on Goa hotspot where UK backpacker found dead
GOA has been unveiled as a deadly paradise where one foreign tourist dies every week - just days after a British backpacker was found dead in a pool of blood.
Danielle McLaughlin was found dead earlier this week
Ms McLaughlin, orginally from Buncrana but who had been living in Liverpool, travelled to the tourist hotspot on a British passport in February.
A 24-year-old man, whose name has been reported as Vikat Bhagat, has been arrested. He appeared in court in India on Wednesday charged with her murder.
But the young traveller’s tragic death is not the first in the paradise resort.
CCTV shows final movements of Danielle McLaughlin
Danielle McLaughlin travelled to Goa in February
Figures from 2011 suggested one tourist died in the popular tourist hotspot every week.
According to the Times of India, on average one foreigner a week died in Goa in the years between 2008 and 2011.
Of the 161 deaths, the cause of death in 53 cases was not known.
Figures from 2011 suggested one tourist died every week
Danielle McLaughlin's family are understandably distraught at what has happened
While 25 are believed to have drowned, 16 following road accidents and 15 due to natural causes.
And many of the deaths are thought to be from drug overdoses.
But the report revealed as many as 29 of these deaths were thought to be British.
Suresh Velip, head constable at Goa Police, said Ms McLaughlin's body was found in a remote area near Deobagh Beach in Canacona on Tuesday morning.
He said a post-mortem examination had been carried out bud details of the findings have not been made public.
Danielle’s heartbroken mum Andrea Brannigan, said her daughter – who grew up in County Donegal, Ireland - would be "sadly missed by all".
Many of the deaths are thought to be from drug overdoses
As many as 29 deaths between 2008-11 were thought to be British
And she added the family were finding it a "difficult and trying time" since receiving the "awful news".
Fr Francis Bradley from St Mary's Church in Buncrana, who visited the McLaughlin family on Wednesday morning, described the death as an "immense loss".
He said: ”Her family are understandably distraught at what has happened.
Ms McLaughlin's mum said her daughter would be "sadly missed by all"
"They are a family who have suffered a lot of loss over the last number of years, her mother in particular.
"The loss is immense and the circumstances of that death, the distance between where it happened and where the family are, adds to the difficulty that the family feel at this time."
Danielle’s killing comes nearly a decade after the death of British teenager Scarlett Keeling, 15, who was found dead on Goa's popular Anjuna beach in 2008.