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ISSUE NO. 1705
8 - 14 March 2018
MALLORCA
Newspaper in Spain 2018
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Holiday horror crash Mallorca girls die in US coach accident A crash in Florida, United States, has claimed the lives of a group of young girls from Mallorca. The holidaymakers died at the scene, according to sources at the Florida Highway Patrol. The girls’ families have already been informed via the Spanish Embassy in the USA and the Balearic Islands government. They are travelling to the States to repatriate the bodies. The girls have been named as Margalida Cortes Pardo, from Palma, Aina Gaitan Diaz, from Inca, Maria Lopez Bermejo Rossello, from Monturi and Teresa Sanchez Quetglas, from Lloseta.
The fatal accident happened in the Islamorada area of Florida last Monday. Florida Highway Patrol’s Lt Kathleen McKinney said the driver of the car and three passengers in the vehicle died. It is reported, locally, that the girls’ Nissan Rogue 2018 car was struck by a truck carrying portable toilets forcing it into the path of a large motorhome travelling in the opposite direction and then into a tree. The driver of the truck and the motorhome were treated for minor injuries. Adam Linhardt, spokesperson for the Monroe Country Sheriff’s Office, told Spanish media the road remained
A 33-YEAR-OLD from Mallorca has died and another man was reportedly in a critical condition in hospital after a suspected carbon monoxide leak at a London hotel. Marcos Cervera Menendez, from Madrid and born in Palma, was found dead in his room in the Mayflower hotel in the Kensington area of the city at
Photo by WLRN NEWS / Nancy Klingener
by Karl Smallman and Joe Gerrard
FOUR DEAD: The motorhome that was involved in the fatal Florida crash. closed throughout most of Monday due to damage caused by the crash. Francina Armengol, the Balearic Islands President, said she felt pain and sadness for the women.
“I have been hit deeply by these tragic events. I want to pass on my condolences to the families of the four Mallorcans who have lost their lives in Miami,” she said on Twitter.
Gas leak tragedy 2.10pm on Monday. Spain’s Consulate General in London has been in contact with local authorities and reports suggest a gas leak is considered a possible cause of the
death. British police said they cannot formally confirm the cause of death until after the autopsy has taken place.
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Robbing hood THE Guardia Civil has opened an investigation after a pharmacy in Llucmajor was robbed at gunpoint. According to reports, the pharmacy in Avenida de las Palmeras was hit early in the morning when a hooded man got out of a car and demanded the shopping assistant to hand over money The shop assistant gave the assailant €800 from the till before he fled the scene, with police now hunting the thief.