Four dead and 27 injured after restaurant collapses in Majorca

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A two-storey building collapsed on the beach in Palma de Mallorca killing at least four people and injuring 27 people in the tourism hot spot the country’s national police said.

Firefighters rushed to the scene with dozens more people trapped in the wreckage of the Medusa Beach Club - a restaurant popular with foreign tourists.

It was reported the ground floor beach club had sunk into the basement causing mass casualties.

The authorities did not specify the nationalities of the victims or the cause of the collapse on Thursday night.

Hundreds of people were held back at a police cordon with the high tourist season strip of the Balearic island off the coast of Spain.

Images from the scene show victims being taken away by stretcher and loaded into ambulances.

Majorca Daily reported that one of the club’s doorman was feared among the dead as well as two tourists.

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