Spain party islands hit by hotel balcony falls, one dead

MADRID: Three tourists have fallen from their hotel balconies in Spain's Balearic Islands in recent days, one of them dying on impact, police said Monday as the summer season in the party archipelago begins.

A spokesman said police were looking at two theories - either"he threw himself off voluntarily, or he fell by accident."On Thursday, a 35-year-old German man fell from the second floor of his hotel too, this time in Palma de Majorca, and was seriously injured, police said.A source close to the probe, who declined to be named, said the man had drunk, dozed off, woken up and subsequently fallen from the balcony, possibly disorientated.

Balcony falls happen every year in the Balearic Islands and other party resorts in Spain, most of them due to excessive drinking or drug-taking. The British foreign office's online travel advice for Spain has an entire section warning against"balcony falls".

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