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20-year-old Dane falls to his death in Mallorca

Just days after a young Scottish man was seriously injured in a similar incident, a young Danish tourist fell off a hotel balcony and died.

Published: 14 July 2014 16:11 CEST
20-year-old Dane falls to his death in Mallorca
Mallorca. Photo: Effervescing Elephant/Flickr
A 20-year-old Dane died after falling from a hotel balcony in Magaluf, Mallorca on Sunday morning, the foreign ministry has confirmed. 
 
The UK press reported that the man was originally thought to be a British citizen until police discovered the man’s Danish passport. 
 
“I can confirm that a person has died in Mallorca, and I can confirm that their next of kin have been informed,” Folmer Jensen, a foreign ministry official, told Politiken. 
 
Magaluf has been making headlines recently for the wild behavior of holiday guests. 
 
On Thursday, a 19-year-old Scottish man was seriously injured after falling from a hotel balcony, while a video of a young British woman performing oral sex on numerous nightclub patrons earlier this month has widely made the rounds online.  

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MALLORCA

Two Americans die scaling sea cliffs in Spain

Two American men have plunged to their deaths while scaling sea cliffs on Spain's holiday island of Mallorca, police said on Wednesday.

Published: 16 September 2021 10:57 CEST
Two Americans die scaling sea cliffs in Spain
Two men die scaling sea cliffs in Mallorca. Photo: cocoparisienne / Pixabay

The bodies of the pair – aged 25 and 35 – were found on Monday floating in the water near the Cueva de es Cossi in the east of the Mediterranean island, a spokeswoman for the Guardia Civil police said.

They had been practising deep-water soloing, a form of rock climbing without ropes that relies solely on the presence of water at the base of a climb to protect against injury from falls.

“It appears that there was a rockslide and they fell,” the spokeswoman said.

Emergency services rushed to the scene after being alerted by swimmers in the area who spotted the badly bruised bodies of the two men floating in the water, she added.

Spain’s maritime rescue service recovered their remains, which were taken to the nearby port of Portocolom.

The area has long been popular for deep water soloing, also known as psicobloc.

While the sport is usually practised on sea cliffs at high tide, it can also be done on climbs above reservoirs and rivers.

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