An 11-year-old Irish girl has died after plunging 65ft from the seventh floor of a Majorcan hotel where she was staying with her family.
The youngster’s relatives were said to be sleeping when she went out on the terrace and leaned over the railing where she then fell to her death after landing on the roof of a first-floor restaurant.
The tragedy occurred around 6.30am this morning at the Jupiter building, within the three-star Club Mac resort, in Puerto de Alcudia, northeast Majorca.
Paramedics and other emergency responders dashed to the hotel and attempted to revive the young girl but she was tragically pronounced dead at the scene.
An autopsy is expected to take place later today at the Institute of Legal Medicine in Palma.
An Irish girl, 11, plunged to her death at the three-star Club Mac resort, in Puerto de Alcudia, northeast Majorca, this morning
The young girl 65ft from the seventh floor of her hotel balcony on to the roof of a first-floor restaurant
The youngster’s relatives were said to be sleeping when she went out on the terrace and fell to her death in circumstances police were today investigating
The family at the centre of the drama are believed to have been planning to return home later today.
Following the tragedy, a regional emergency coordination centre has offered the youngster’s family trauma counsellors.
One well-placed insider said: ‘The girl who died was one of three children.
‘The family were due to return to Ireland today.
‘The youngster’s parents were sleeping when she fell and had no idea what had happened until afterwards.’
A receptionist at Club Mac said this morning the resort was not commenting.
A civil Guard spokesman in Majorca confirmed: ‘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.’
The tragedy comes just weeks after Irish physiotherapist Michael Grant died suddenly while on holiday in Magaluf.
The 45-year-old, form Waterford, was found unresponsive close to the resort’s notorious Punta Bellena strip that is packed with late-night bars, nightclubs and lap dancing joints at around 4:30am.
Mr Grant was on holiday in Magaluf with his wife Leanne and their four children and other families from Ireland when the tragedy took place.
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