A collapsed building that killed four people is fenced off in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Friday, May 24
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Three days of mourning has been declared by Palma City Council after a deadly partial-collapse at a beach club. The details of the four lives claimed in a building collapse in Majorca on Thursday have been revealed.
A further 16 people have been injured after the first floor of a beach club fell in.
Two German women aged 20 and 30, a 23-year-old Spanish woman and a Senegalese man aged 44 died. They were killed when the first floor terrace of the two-storey Medusa Beach Club in Palma collapsed on Thursday.
Emergency services said that out of 16 people in the building at the time, 9 were “seriously” injured in the collapse with a further 7 “very seriously” injured.
The Medusa Club is a popular tourist restaurant at a packed beach resort. The club had allegedly been promoting the new terrace floor that people were dancing on shortly before its collapse, according to Balearic Islands’ public television IB3.
A spokesperson for German’s Foreign Ministry said its consulate in Mallorca was in close contact with authorities.
“The situation on the ground is still partly unclear,” the spokesperson said. “At this point in time, we unfortunately have to assume that German nationals are among the dead and injured.”
The UK’s Foreign Office said it was “aware” of the incident, adding that there were “currently no reports of British nationals having been informed”.
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez sent his condolences to the families of the deceased and wished for a “speedy recovery”.
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Three days of mourning has been declared by Palma City Council after a deadly partial-collapse at a beach club. The details of the four lives claimed in a building collapse in Majorca on Thursday have been revealed.
A further 16 people have been injured after the first floor of a beach club fell in.
Two German women aged 20 and 30, a 23-year-old Spanish woman and a Senegalese man aged 44 died. They were killed when the first floor terrace of the two-storey Medusa Beach Club in Palma collapsed on Thursday.
Emergency services said that out of 16 people in the building at the time, 9 were “seriously” injured in the collapse with a further 7 “very seriously” injured.
The Medusa Club is a popular tourist restaurant at a packed beach resort. The club had allegedly been promoting the new terrace floor that people were dancing on shortly before its collapse, according to Balearic Islands’ public television IB3.
A spokesperson for German’s Foreign Ministry said its consulate in Mallorca was in close contact with authorities.
“The situation on the ground is still partly unclear,” the spokesperson said. “At this point in time, we unfortunately have to assume that German nationals are among the dead and injured.”
The UK’s Foreign Office said it was “aware” of the incident, adding that there were “currently no reports of British nationals having been informed”.
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez sent his condolences to the families of the deceased and wished for a “speedy recovery”.
