England fan cheats death by surviving 75-foot fall from Magaluf balcony hours after World Cup win over Colombia
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An England fan cheated death when he fell from a fifth floor balcony in Magaluf just hours after the Three Lion's World Cup win over Colombia.
The 18-year-old had been partying with pals when he plunged 75-foot from the four star Flamboyan Caribe Hotel, in Magaluf, Spain, in the early hours of this morning.
More than a thousand Brits had packed into bars in the party resort’s Punta Ballena strip to watch England triumph in a nail-biting last 16 game.
The unnamed holidaymaker is thought to have fallen from a window in a hotel corridor.
A worker at a kebab takeaway alerted the authorities.
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Sources said he was “serious but conscious” when he was taken to Son Espases Hospital in the island capital Majorca.
Local reports said the group he was with - his girlfriend and other friends - had followed the ambulance that took him away in a taxi.
Civil Guard investigators are now investigating the cause of the fall so they can rule out any foul play.
Nobody from the hospital was available for comment this morning.
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Two Brits have already died in falls in Magaluf this year.
On June 3, Welshman Tom Hughes, 20, passed away after plunging to the ground at the Eden Roc apartments.
He is thought to have mistaken the complex for the hotel he was staying in.
And in April, bar worker Natalie Cormack, from Scotland, died at the same block of flats.
She had been trying to edge her way along an overhang around a locked entrance door after she discovered she didn’t have keys to get in.
She plunged the equivalent of seven floors.
A glass panel has since been erected at the spot where she died in a bid to avoid a fresh tragedy.
On Monday night, a 28-year-old Brit was seriously injured after plunging from the second-floor of his guesthouse in the party resort of San Antonio, in on the neighbouring island of Ibiza.
It later emerged he jumped from his room terrace after opening the door to police who wanted to question him about a hit-and-run car crash he was suspected of involvement in on Sunday.
A woman in a car hit by another vehicle that failed to stop suffered whiplash in the accident near San Rafael Tunnel.
The unnamed Brit is expected to be questioned by police in hospital about the crash once he is well enough.