A British tourist has died after plunging from a sixth-floor balcony at his Costa del Sol hotel as police launch an investigation.
The 37-year-old dad-of-two was staying at the hotel in the popular resort of Torremolinos with his partner.
His wife and two young children, both believed to be under the age of ten, were sleeping inside their room when the tragedy occurred in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Emergency responders rushed to the hotel, which has not been named, after receiving several 999 calls but were unable to do anything to save the holidaymaker and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Brit’s partner is said to have told police he stayed on the balcony alone after they had enjoyed a few drinks together when she went to bed – and is insisting she believes he fell to his death accidentally.
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The ongoing investigation is being led by officers from Spain’s National Police. They could not be reached early this morning for comment.
In May, last year a 24-year-old British holidaymaker was critically injured after plunging from his hotel in Puerto Banus near Marbella on the Costa del Sol.
He was staying in a first-floor room with friends who are said to have been sleeping when he fell.
The injured tourist plunged to the street below the Hard Rock Hotel in what was the equivalent of a three-storey fall because of the area it is in.
He was named at the time as Harry Watts from Hessle near Kingston upon Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire as friends launched a GoFundMe appeal following his “horrific freak accident.”
Pal Luke Coupland said after Harry was admitted to the Regional University Hospital of Malaga his “life-threatening” injuries included a bleed on the brain, multiple broken bones and severe internal damage.
Late last month a woman was killed in Torremolinos when a palm tree fell on top of her during a storm.
She was identified hours after the January 27 tragedy as a 31-year-old Moroccan migrant who was on her way to pick up her residency card.
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