Overview
- The dining-room collapse that struck the Santa Ponça hotel Thursday night injured two people and led crews to evacuate about 70 diners from the room.
- By Friday, authorities sealed the entire ground-floor level and the owners closed the hotel, moving roughly 520 guests to other properties in the same chain.
- Guardia Civil investigators are testing a leading idea that an old floor slab failed because it lacked steel mesh reinforcement, a grid that helps concrete carry weight without cracking.
- A Mallorca fire service technician said a high water table near a local stream and the beach likely weakened parts of the structure and beams in a building first put up in the 1970s.
- Firefighters’ first checks found no sign of a broader structural failure, yet the full closure reflects caution as Mallorca reexamines building safety after last year’s deadly Medusa Beach terrace collapse.