A British boy is in intensive care in hospital in Majorca after plunging from the third floor of his apart-hotel in Ibiza.
The eight-year-old went over the edge of a balcony at the Aparthotel Vibra Bay in the holiday resort of San Antonio in an accident just before 8.30pm yesterday evening.
He was initially rushed to a private clinic in Ibiza Town where he underwent an emergency operation before being airlifted to Son Espases Hospital in the Majorcan capital Palma.
Local reports said the transfer had occurred because there was no paediatric intensive care unit available in Ibiza.
The youngster is said to have suffered a severe traumatic brain injury, skull fracture and cerebral oedema as well as chest injuries and a broken jaw.
A Civil Guard source said the incident was still under investigation but was being treated at this stage as an accident thought to have occurred while the injured boy was playing on a balcony.
In the early hours of Sunday morning a 24-year-old British holidaymaker was left critically injured after plunging from his hotel in Puerto Banus near Marbella on the Costa del Sol.
He was staying in a first-floor room with friends who are said to have been sleeping when he fell.
The injured tourist is thought to have been drinking heavily before he plunged to the street below the Hard Rock Hotel in what was the equivalent of a three-storey fall because of the area it is in.
He is currently a patient at the Regional University Hospital of Malaga.
On Saturday two Irish holidaymakers were hurt after crashing off their buggy at a golf course near Marbella.
One of the men had to be airlifted to hospital after smashing through a protective barrier around a green near the 18th tee at Santa Clara Golf and falling around 23 feet.
An investigation into the near-tragedy is ongoing.
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