MADRID (AP) — Spanish national police provided details Friday of the incident that saw a building housing a bar and restaurant club collapse on the island of Mallorca, killing four people.
Police said two German women, aged 20 and 30, a Spanish woman, aged 33, and a Senegalese man, aged 44, were killed. The Spanish woman worked at the club.
Palma de Mallorca Mayor Jaime Martinez and fire department spokesman Eder Garcia told reporters that excessive weight on the first-floor terrace may have been the cause of Thursday’s collapse.
Sixteen people were injured, five of them in a serious condition, and are being treated at a local hospital. Details of their nationalities are not yet available.
Editor’s note: Graphic content / Tourists pass by as police search the scene after a two-storey club and restaurant collapsed, killing four and injuring 16, in Playa de Palma, south of the Spanish Mediterranean island’s capital Palma de Mallorca, on May 24, 2024. The roof of a two-storey club and restaurant collapsed on the Spanish Mediterranean island of Mallorca on May 23, 2024, killing four people and injuring 16 – two German women aged 20 and 30, a 44-year-old Senegalese man and a 23-year-old Spanish woman who worked there – in the Spanish Mediterranean island of Mallorca, according to AFP. (Photo by Jaime Reina/AFP) (Photo by Jaime Reina/AFP via Getty Images)
Palma, Spain, 24 May 2024: View of the Medusa Beach Club building after its collapse. Two German women and two others were killed in the collapse of the packed restaurant in Playa de Palma, Mallorca. Photo: Clara Margais/dpa (Photo by Clara Margais/picture alliance via Getty Images)
Editor’s note: Graphic content / Firefighters work a day after a two-storey club and restaurant collapsed, killing four people and injuring 16, in Playa de Palma, south of the Spanish Mediterranean island’s capital Palma de Mallorca, on May 24, 2024. AFP reports that four people were killed and 16 injured when the roof of a two-storey club and restaurant collapsed on the Spanish Mediterranean island of Mallorca on May 23, 2024, killing two German women aged 20 and 30, a 44-year-old Senegalese man and a 23-year-old Spanish woman who worked there. (Jaime Reyna/AFP) (Jaime Reyna/AFP via Getty Images)
Palma, Spain, 24 May 2024: Two firefighters work at the scene of a collapsed building in Playa de Palma, Mallorca, where two German women and two others were killed when a packed restaurant collapsed. Photo: Clara Margais/dpa (Photo by Clara Margais/picture alliance via Getty Images)
The accident happened in the Mediterranean island city of Palma, a popular tourist destination. The building houses the Medusa Beach Club restaurant near the beach, which was bustling with tourists at the time of the incident.
Police were unable to say how many people were on the premises when the incident occurred at about 8.30pm.
Balearic public television station IB3 reported on Thursday night that people dancing on the terrace fell to the floor below.
No official cause for the building collapse has been announced.
The city declared three days of mourning and planned to hold a minute’s silence at noon Friday.
