An 11-year-old Irish girl has died after falling 20 metres from the seventh floor of a hotel in Mallorca where she was staying with her family.
It is said that the girl’s relatives were asleep when she walked onto the terrace and leaned over the railing, after which she fell to the roof of a first-floor restaurant and died.
The tragedy happened this morning at around 6.30am in the Jupiter building, part of the three-star Club Mac resort in Puerto de Alcudia, in the northeast of Mallorca.
According to local reports, the child fell accidentally, but the Guardia Civil has not yet made an official statement.
Emergency services and other aid workers rushed to the hotel and tried to resuscitate the girl, but she died on the spot.
An 11-year-old Irish girl died this morning at the three-star Club Mac resort in Puerto de Alcudia, north-east Mallorca.
The young girl 65 feet from the seventh floor of her hotel balcony onto the roof of a first floor restaurant
The young woman’s relatives were asleep when she went out onto the terrace and fell dead. Police were investigating the circumstances today.
An autopsy is expected to take place later today at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Palma.
It is believed the family at the centre of the drama were planning to return home later today.
Following the tragedy, a regional emergency coordination center offered trauma therapists to the boy’s family.
An insider said: ‘The deceased girl was one of three children.
The family were due to return to Ireland today.
‘The girl’s parents were asleep when she fell and only later realized what had happened.’
A Club Mac receptionist said this morning that the resort would not comment.
The tragedy came just weeks after Irish physiotherapist Michael Grant died suddenly while on holiday in Magaluf.
The 45-year-old Waterford man was found unconscious at around 4.30am near the resort’s notorious Punta Bellena promenade, which is home to numerous bars, nightclubs and lap dancing venues.
Mr Grant was on holiday in Magaluf with his wife Leanne and their four children and other families from Ireland when the tragedy occurred.
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