A witness is said to have told police the dead man plunged from the skylight of a car park in the centre of Palma, near to the well-known Saratoga Hotel in Majorca
A British man has died after plunging from the sixth-floor of a building in the Majorcan capital Palma in front of horrified tourists.
Police are investigating the incident after the alarm was raised around 2pm today. Police have confirmed the dead man as a British national aged 64. It was not yet clear if he was resident in Majorca or a holidaymaker.
A well-placed source said his death wasn’t being treated as a crime at this stage, although investigators were still awaiting the results of an autopsy. A witness is said to have told cops the dead man plunged from the skylight of a car park in the centre of Palma, near to the well-known Saratoga Hotel. Several tourists at the hotel are said to have witnessed the tragedy.
Emergency responders raced to the scene but were unable to do anything to save the man who plunged from the building. On Tuesday night a British teenager was rushed to hospital “seriously injured” after falling from the first floor of a property in Majorca.
The 15-year-old girl was stabilised at the scene before being taken to Son Espases Hospital in Palma. The incident happened in Sant Llorenc des Cardassar near to the Love Island villa in the north-east of Majorca. A code red is said to have been activated because of the extent of the youngster’s injuries.
A Scottish teenager died in the early hours of August 20 after falling from a sixth-floor hotel balcony in Ibiza. Emma Ramsay, 19, from Hamilton, was on holiday with friends in the party resort of San Antonio. The tragedy occurred at a seafront four-star adult-only hotel called Hotel Vibra District.
On August 17 a 28-year-old British holidaymaker died in a 15ft fall at a hotel in Palmanova near Magaluf in Majorca after a night out partying. The dead man’s partner had to be treated for a panic attack later in the day. The incident happened at the four-star Reverence Mare Hotel in Palmanova.
The alarm was raised around 7am, although the holidaymaker is believed to have fallen to his death several hours earlier.
Civil Guard investigators believe he suffered his fatal accident after trying to enter the wrong hotel following a night out partying and losing his way during an attempted short-cut.
