Two construction workers were killed and five others injured when three floors of a hotel in the Spanish resort of Palma de Majorca collapsed today, an emergency services spokeswoman said.
"They are still trying to remove the bodies, but two have died," the spokeswoman said.
The construction workers, who were remodelling the building, were trapped inside. Survivors were pulled from the rubble by a rescue team that included 100 people working with sniffer dogs, listening devices and hydraulic equipment, she said.
The five injured workers were taken to hospital, where one of them was in serious condition.
State radio said the cause of the accident might have been a demolition truck striking one of the building's structural pillars.
There were no tourists inside the Hotel Tivoli in the Palma Beach area of the city. The number of workers was first reported as eight but only seven were inside the building when it collapsed, the spokeswoman said.
Majorca is the biggest of Spain's Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea which each year receive around six million tourists.
Reuters