A two-storey building collapsed on the beach in Palma killing at least four people and injuring 27 others in the tourism hot spot.
Firefighters rushed to the scene with at least ten feared trapped in the wreckage of the Medusa Beach Club – a restaurant popular with foreign tourists.
According to emergency services, the roof of the building collapsed 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 security guards was feared among the dead as well as two tourists.
The mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez, and the deputy mayor, Javier Bonet, both went to the scene to speak with the emergency teams.
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