Holiday horror as seven tourists in plunge as Majorca viewing platform collapses

Seven tourists have plunged through a concrete viewing platform on the holiday island of Majorca.

Six of those who fell were injured, two of them seriously, during a sight-seeing trip, which saw them buried under the rubble. The horrific incident happened last night in the village of Randa which enjoys magnificent views over the island below.

The French tourists had climbed on to a concrete building, the roof of which acted as a viewing point. They all plummeted about 10ft through the roof when it gave way and were buried, some of them for several hours, under concrete rubble.

A full investigation is now underway as the emergency services remain on the scene. A large number of personnel had worked for approximately two hours yesterday until they were able to rescue all of the tourists from under the rubble.

Some of the injured were able to climb up a rescue ladder but two of the tourists had to be lifted out vertically on stretchers, with one complaining of leg pain and the other with a back injury.

The French tourists, all of them in their 60s, were visiting the area together with a group from a tourist agency. They were reportedly standing on the concrete cistern at road level. At one point and for reasons that are unknown but are now being investigated, the roof gave under their feet and the seven tourists plummeted inside, in a fall of about three metres.

The Civil Guard of Llucmajor and Algaida, as well as local Police of Algaida, six crews of the firefighters of the parks of Llucmajor and Manacor, members of Civil Protection of Algaida and at least four ambulances, all were in attendance.

“The rescue operation lasted until 9.10pm,” the island newspaper Cronica de Balearics reports. “The work has been complicated to extract two of the victims. The firefighters have required the presence of a truck with a ladder, which they have parked in the middle of the road. After stabilising it, they have stretched the ladder, as if it were a boom truck, so that the firefighters have been able to go down to the hut with stretchers.”

Police sources have indicated that just a few metres from this viewing point there is a cliff, known as Es Morro den Moll, with a drop of more than 120 metres. Fortunately, the affected tourists have been trapped a few metres from this precipice in the hollow of the building.

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