A BRITISH boy plunged from the third floor of an Ibiza balcony, leaving him in intensive care with “serious head injuries”;.
The eight-year-old accidentally went over the edge of a balcony at the Aparthotel Vibra Bay in the holiday resort of San Antonio.
The eight-year-old is said to have suffered a severe traumatic brain injury, skull fracture and cerebral oedema as well as chest injuries and a broken jaw.
The young boy was initially rushed to a private clinic in Ibiza Town where he underwent an emergency operation.
He then had to get 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 alert was raised just before 8.30pm yesterday.
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.
It comes after a Brit holidaymaker plunged from the balcony of Costa del Sol hotel at 5am,
The tourist is said to have been rushed to hospital in a “critical condition”; after the incident at the Hard Rock Hotel in Puerto Banus,
Witnesses say the unnamed holidaymaker plunged from a first-floor balcony – but it’s said to have been the equivalent of a third-floor fall.
It’s understood that he fell from the balcony onto a public street.
Three friends the Brit was with – who is described by unconfirmed reports as being young – have been quizzed by cops as part of an ongoing.
Cops have not yet made any official comment but are not thought to be treating the incident as a case of so-called “balconing”;.
This is where tourists try to leap into their hotel holiday pools from their rooms or jump between balconies.
A mere few weeks ago,after reportedly falling from a third-floor apartment in Ibiza.
The 19-year-old was rushed to hospital after being foundunconscious on the pavement with severe injuries.
Emergency services rushed to the horrifying scene in San Antonio where paramedics were able to stabilise the teenager.
Medics then took him to the Can Misses Hospital where he was treated for head trauma and serious multiple injuries, as reported by theand FormenteraArea (Asef).
From there he was airlifted by helicopter to the Son Espases Hospital in Mallorca for further treatment.
And in August last year,afrom the sixth-floor of a hotel in Ibiza.
The 19-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene after the fall.
Paramedics raced to the scene but could do nothing to save the female holidaymaker due to the severity of her injuries.
A spokesman for the force said at the time: “I can confirm a 19-year-old British tourist has died following a fall at a hotel in San Antonio in Ibiza.”;
A well-placedpolicesource added: “Everything is pointing to this being a tragic accidental fall.”;
The British teen was the second Brit to fall to their death in the Balearic Isles in a matter of days.
A28-year-old British holidaymaker died in a 15ft fall at a hotel in Palmanova nearinafter a night out partying just a few days prior.
The incident happened at the four-star Reverence Mare Hotel in Palmanova.
Civil Guard investigators believe he suffered his fatal accident after trying to enter the wrong hotel following a night out partying and losing his way during an attempted short-cut.
