Majorca building involved in fatal collapse ‘lacked proper authorisation’

Two German women, aged 20 and 30, and a 33-year-old Spanish woman as well as a 44-year-old Senegalese man died last Thursday when the terrace buckled and came down. Picture: Isaac Buj/Europa Press via AP

A building housing a bar and restaurant club that collapsed, killing four people in Majorca, lacked the proper authorisation, local authorities from the Spanish island have said.

Palma de Majorca mayor Jaime Martinez told reporters that it seems the collapse of a first-floor terrace was caused by excess weight and some poorly executed construction work on the building.