British holidaymaker cheats death after surviving 75-foot fall from Magaluf balcony
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A British holidaymaker is in a "grave state" after he fell from a fifth floor balcony in Magaluf.
The 19-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.
The holidaymaker - at first repored to be English but now understood to be from Wales - is thought to have fallen from a window in a hotel corridor.
A worker at a nearby kebab takeaway alerted the authorities.
Sources said he was “serious but conscious” when he was taken to Son Espases Hospital in Palma, the island capital.
Police said they are treating the incident as an accident.
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A senior Civil Guard officer said: "He was not climbing on balcony railings or something similar. He fell from a window. Investigations are continuing."
Local reports said the group he was with - his girlfriend and other friends - had followed the ambulance that took him away in a taxi.
Nobody from the hospital was available for comment this morning.
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.