(24 May 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Palma de Mallorca, Spain – 24 May 2024
1. Various collapsed building
2. Crying woman
3. Collapsed building
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Francisco Nogales, Local resident:
"Crying, you heard the people crying. And there was an African person who – they have just told me – went in to have a coffee, and never left."
5. Various onlookers
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Francisco Nogales, Local resident:
"He went in to have a coffee, and a woman that I know, says that there was a worker who died immediately, a waitress."
7. Police van outside
STORYLINE:
Spain’s National Police have released details of four people killed when a building housing a bar and restaurant club collapsed on the island of Mallorca.
Police said two German women died, along with a Spanish woman and a Senegalese man. The Spanish woman worked in the club, they said.
Firefighter department spokesman Eder García told reporters that excess weight on a first floor terrace may have caused the collapse.
Sixteen people were injured and five were said to be in serious condition. There were no immediately details on their nationalities.
The building in the city of Palma housed a restaurant called Medusa Beach Club and the area was packed with tourists at the time.
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