At least four people have died and dozens are injured after a beach bar in Majorca collapsed.
Were you at the scene? Contact [email protected] British expat has described the moment he desperately tried to save the life of one of the victims of the Majorca restaurant collapse on Thursday.
'I was standing near the bar when I heard the noise and went to help,' he said. 'I was doing CPR on and then after about five minutes or so the emergency services came and they were doing it again for a long time.' Horror scenes of the aftermath showed emergency teams working tirelessly to pull survivors from the wreckage last night. It was revealed three women and one man had died and many more were injured in the horror accident.
The nationalities of all 16 people police said this morning had been injured has not yet been released. Alain Carbonell, president of the S'Arenal Neigbourhood's Residents Association which covers the area, said today: 'We fear that the building has collapsed due to its age and the fact it was originally designed for residential and not tourist use by the amount of people inside.'This was completely foreseeable and the worst thing about it is that it will happen again.
Emergency staff's members work after a two-storey restaurant collapsed, killing four and injuring 17 people on Playa de Palma, south of the Spanish Mediterranean island's capital Palma de Majorca, on May 23, 2024 Raul Pursnani, owner of a shop called Moda Meena next door to Medusa Beach Club, said: 'I was leaving my shop and was outside when everything came down all of a sudden.Santiago Aranda, walking his dog with his wife at the time of the collapse, told Spanish outlet COPE's La Linterna: 'It's one thing to watch television and another thing is this and being there... I don't have words to describe it. It was an explosion, and we were in the street opposite.
Eder Garcia, head of the Palma Fire Brigade, said from the scene overnight: 'We received the first call around 8pm. Neighbours said they heard a loud noise followed by screams coming from the venue as the building collapsed, La Vanguardia reported. Local emergency services, writing on Twitter/X, reported shortly before 11pm BST that four people were confirmed to have died, seven were very seriously injured, and nine were seriously injured.
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