Madrid, 23 May 2024 – The toll is 4 dead and 25 injured – still being updated – of collapse of a restaurant terrace Medusa Beach Club in Playa de Palma, south of the island’s capital, Palma de Mallorca, just as the high tourist season is in full swing. The reasons are yet to be ascertained.
At the moment, according to what the Spanish media report, it would have been only one of the four victims identified: Abdoulaye Diop, a Senegalese man who made headlines in 2017 for saving a swimmer.
From what we understand at the moment there are no Italians involved.
Of the injured, seven are said to be serious, while there could be a dozen people still under the rubble. A witness told reporters on site that he heard the collapse: “It was like a bomb,” he said. The place, according to several residents of the area, had been renovated “a couple of years ago” and the collapsed part was used as a chill out area. Shortly after hearing the news, many curious people, including tourists, approached the police cordon, and some even went around it, to get closer to the collapsed factory.
