Girl, 11, dies after falling from hotel balcony on family holiday
Her parents were sleeping when it happened.
An 11-year-old girl from Ireland has died after falling from a hotel balcony while on a family holiday in Majorca.
The girl reportedly plunged from the seventh floor of Club Mac, an all-inclusive three-star resort in Puerto de Alcudia in northeast Majorca at around 6.30am this morning.
Spanish police, who are investigating the case, said her parents had been sleeping at the time.
She was found by another hotel guest and emergency services were alerted.
Paramedics tried to revive the girl, but were unsuccessful and she was pronounced dead at the scene.
An autopsy is expected to take place later today.
A Civil Guard said: ‘We are investigating the death of an 11-year-old Irish girl who died after plunging from a seventh-floor terrace at a hotel in Alcudia.
‘The first emergency calls came in around 6.45 this morning.’
Earlier the force also stated: ‘(Her) parents were sleeping. A hosted person at the hotel reported the emergency at the morning when he found the body.’
The Department of Foreign Affairs said it is aware of the case and is providing consular assistance.
A 27-year-old British man was seriously injured in June after he fell from a balcony in Majorca’s capital, Palma, after reportedly taking drugs.
On July 10, a British man died after falling off a balcony in Laganas on the island of Zante in Greece.
The 23-year-old lost his balance while climbing on the balcony railings and fell 1.5m to ground ‘head-first’. He died in hospital.
Elsewhere on the island on the same day, another British tourist fell from the first-floor balcony of his hotel.
He was rushed to the same hospital in a serious condition.
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