Timur Laut district police chief Rozak Muhammad said no criminal elements were detected. (Facebook pic) GEORGE TOWN: A 57-year-old foreign woman was found drowned while undergoing aquatic therapy in a condominium swimming pool in Tanjung Bungah here this evening.

Timur Laut district police chief Rozak Muhammad said police received information about the incident from a member of the public at 6.10pm.

He said preliminary investigation found that the victim and her husband were undergoing aquatic therapy in the pool at 5.20pm before the man briefly left her to answer a phone call from a friend.

“The victim’s husband left for about five minutes, and when he returned to the swimming pool, he found her underwater. She was believed to have fallen off a float.