Holidaymakers have been injured and more than 150 people evacuated after part of the dining room of a hotel in Majorca collapsed. Several customers have suffered minor injuries and have been treated by the emergency services.
The emergency happened tonight in the popular tourist resort of Santa Ponça. The incident unfolded at around 9.30pm at the Rey Don Jaime hotel, located at number 4 Gran Vía Puig Major street. Several customers were eating in one of the dining rooms of the complex when for reasons that are being investigated, the ground gave way. Photos published in Spanish newspaper Ultimahora.es show the dining room with floor slabs collapsed, with tables and chairs sliding sideways and debris over the floor.
Firefighters from the Calvià station, together with ambulances, patrols from the Local Police and the Civil Guard, have rushed to the scene to help possible victims.
Ambulance crews have treated several people with minor injuries, with around 150 people evacuated as a precaution.
A full investigation will now be launched to determine why part of the floor has collapsed.
The incident is the second to happen in a Spanish hotel in the space of a few days.
The first happened in Benidorm where the roof of a restaurant in a hotel collapsed on Easter Sunday.
The noise of the ceiling crashing down in the restaurant of the Poseidon Palace hotel was so loud that even people in the swimming pool heard it.
Holidaymakers have revealed their horror at the incident which injured at least seven people, one of them a young boy.
But they said it could have been a lot worse as just the day before, the restaurant had been packed with 400 people who only left on Saturday.
One said: “It was a very tense moment. We arrived at that time to eat and people fled in terror without knowing what was happening.”