MADRID, Spain: Death toll in restaurant collapse in Spain’s Mallorca has hit four, said rescuers.
Earlier, authorities said that two people died and around 12 were injured after a two-storey building collapsed on the Spanish Mediterranean island of Mallorca on Thursday, emergency services said.
Regional emergency services wrote on X, “It is confirmed that two people died” and “some 12-14 injured of different severity” in the south of the popular tourist destination.
Local media reported that the disaster occurred at a restaurant in the Playa de Palma area, south of the island’s capital Palma de Mallorca, just as the main tourist season was in full swing.
According to images published in local media, firefighters, police and ambulances rushed to the scene.
Mallorca is one of Spain’s Balearic Islands, whose pristine waters and beaches attract more tourists than all the Spanish regions after Catalonia.
According to official data, more than 14 million tourists visited the islands last year.
