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Woman’s attempted suicide jump kills pensioner seated on bench

A man died on Wednesday after a woman who seemed to be attempting suicide by jumping from a seventh floor balcony in Alicante landed on top of him. The woman survived.

Published: 3 December 2015 09:09 CET
Woman's attempted suicide jump kills pensioner seated on bench
Archive photo of an ambulance in Spain. Photo: Pierre-Philippe Marcou / AFP.

The octogenarian was sitting on a bench in Alicante with his wife on Wednesday morning when the woman landed on top of him, having fallen from a seventh-floor balcony above, according to local newspaper Diario Información.

A spokesman for Alicante's city council confirmed to The Local that the incident occurred near the Plaza Manila, but could not give further details because the case is being handled by the national police.

The newspaper reported that the woman, 48, is believed to have been attempting to commit suicide and that neighbours said she suffered from depression.

The woman was taken to hospital, suffering from serious injuries, though she is in stable condition, according to El Mundo.

The man's wife was also taken to hospital, suffering from shock, according to Europa Press.

The Spanish phone number for the International Association of Hope's crisis hotline is 902-500-002.

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Spain seizes 1.8 tonnes of Sinaloa Cartel’s crystal meth

Spanish police said Thursday they had seized 1,800 kilos of crystal meth that Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel was trying to sell in Europe, the country's "biggest-ever seizure" of the narcotic.

Published: 16 May 2024 17:07 CEST
Spain seizes 1.8 tonnes of Sinaloa Cartel's crystal meth

Police arrested five people during the raid in the eastern Alicante province, one of them a Mexican running the cartel’s Spanish operation, a statement said.

“This is the biggest-ever seizure of crystal meth in Spain and the second largest in Europe,” Antonio Martinez Duarte, head of the police’s drug trafficking and organised crime unit, told reporters.

“Among those arrested is a Mexican citizen linked to the Sinaloa Cartel,” he added.

READ ALSO: What are the penalties for drug possession in Spain?

He did not give his name but indicated the suspect was responsible for receiving the narcotics in Spain then distributing them within Europe.

The Sinaloa Cartel is one of Mexico’s oldest, largest and most violent criminal groups whose influence remains strong despite the arrest of its founder Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman and his son.

Both have been extradited to and jailed in the United States.

During the operation, police also detained three Spaniards and a Romanian, seizing five cars, documents, a weapon and cash.

But police believe it was a one-off trafficking operation and that “Mexican organisations are not permanently based” in Spain, Martinez Duarte said.

“These organisations send a trusted person who carries out the operation in line with their interests” and once that is over, he goes back home, he explained.

The seized narcotics had been due to be shipped to central Europe.

Although Spain is one of the main drug gateways to Europe, seizures of synthetic narcotics are uncommon as most traffickers usually deal in cannabis and cocaine.

READ ALSO: Why is Spain’s Europe’s cocaine gateway?

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