Four dead in building collapse on island of Mallorca

Pietro Lombardi
Reuters
A building collapse has killed at least four people and injured 16 more on the Spanish island of Mallorca (Photo By Isaac Buj/Europa Press via Getty Images)
A building collapse has killed at least four people and injured 16 more on the Spanish island of Mallorca (Photo By Isaac Buj/Europa Press via Getty Images) Credit: Europa Press News/Europa Press via Getty Images

A two-storey beach club has collapsed on the beach in Palma de Mallorca, killing at least four people and injuring 16 in the tourism hot spot in Spain’s Balearic Islands

Seven people were injured “very seriously” and nine were seriously injured, emergency services said on X. They were taken to various hospitals in Palma.

Firefighters and police forces rushed to the popular Medusa Beach Club on Thursday, emergency services said, adding some psychologists had been called in.

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Emergency staff's members work after a two-storey restaurant collapsed, killing four and injuring at least 17 people on Playa de Palma, south of the Spanish Mediterranean island's capital Palma de Mallorca, on May 23, 2024. Four people died and 17 were injured after the roof of a two-storey restaurant collapsed on Spain's Mediterranean island of Mallorca on May 23, 2024, AFP reported. (Photo by Jaime REINA / AFP)
Emergency staff's members work after a two-storey restaurant collapsed on Playa de Palma, in Mallorca, Credit: JAIME REINA/AFP

A two-storey beach club has collapsed on the beach in Palma de Mallorca, killing at least four people and injuring 16 in the tourism hot spot in Spain’s Balearic Islands

“I am closely following the consequences of the terrible collapse that occurred on the beach of Palma,” Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on X.

Sanchez said he had spoken to local and regional authorities, adding the government is ready to help “with all the means and troops that are necessary.”

PALMA DE MALLORCA, MALLORCA, BA, SPAIN - MAY 23: Several emergency services evacuate the injured on the beach of Palma, May 24, 2024, in Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. At least two people have died Thursday in the collapse of a building in Playa de Palma, as reported by 112 on the social network X where it also indicates that there would be between 12 and 14 injured of varying degrees. (Photo By Isaac Buj/Europa Press via Getty Images)
Several emergency services evacuated the injured on the beach of Palma. Credit: Europa Press News/Europa Press via Getty Images

“I want to send my condolences to the families of the deceased and my wish for a speedy recovery to the injured,” he said.

Spanish state-owned broadcaster TVE showed firefighters working to clear areas of the Medusa Beach Club in Palma about 11.30pm on Thursday, and ambulances on the scene.

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Rescuers are at the scene of a building collapse in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. (AP PHOTO) Credit: AP

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