Two people have died and ten are feared to still be trapped after a building collapsed at a beach resort in Majorca.
Around one hundred emergency responders including police and firefighters have raced to the scene of the incident, identified locally as a terrace at a beach bar in Playa de Palma called the Medusa Beach Club.
Local authorities are also saying one person has been seriously injured in the collapse, without yet providing further information on the identities of the affected.
The first floor was revealed to have collapsed onto the ground floor, causing devastation to the inner building and injuring as many as fourteen.
A spokesman for a regional emergency response coordination centre said: ‘We have activated an emergency response as a result of the collapse of the ceiling of a two-storey building in Avenida Cartago in Playa de Palma, where people are trapped.’
Playa de Palma is the beach area lying to the east of the Majorcan capital. It is especially popular with German holidaymakers.
File photo. The Playa de Palma beach in S’Arenal in Mallorca, Spain
The floor caved in around 8:45pm local time (7:45 BST) on Thursday, according to Catalan news outlet Rac 1.
Authorities were forced to call a crane company to help lift debris from the two-storey building with the extent of the casualties still unknown.
A spokesman for a regional emergency coordination centre said: ‘We can confirm two people have died in the collapse of the building in Playa de Palma.
‘We can also confirm 12 to 14 people have suffered injuries of differing degrees. Psychologists have been activated.’
Around the same time well-placed sources said: ‘Three people have died and there are about twenty people injured.’
There was no immediate information made available on the victims’ nationalities.
Local media said several tourists had tried to enter the premises because they suspected friends were inside.
Phone calls to the beach club said to have been affected went unanswered last night.
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