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Mallorca Hotel Collapse Traps Workers

by Amy Judd | December 16, 2008 at 10:21 am

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Four workers were buried under rubble when a the upper floors of a hotel collapsed on the Spanish island of Mallorca. The island had experienced a few days of torrential rain.

The Hotel Son Moll, nine stories high in Cala Rajada is very popular with German tourists.

"The hotel was being refitted and was closed to the public. There are four or five workers under the rubble," an emergency services spokesman said.

A local government official, who asked not to be named, said preliminary investigations pointed to the possibility that the building's cement had weakened during two days of heavy rain.