Overview
- A scaffold dropped from the midsection of an 18-story building on Calle Ibiza in Benidorm, leaving two people dead, the regional emergency center CICU confirmed.
- Ambulances, Local and National Police, and provincial firefighters secured the scene and worked through heavy debris to check for further hazards.
- Authorities first reported one death and one very serious injury before updating the toll to two fatalities.
- A third person remains under observation after the collapse but was initially described as uninjured.
- Investigators have not released the victims’ identities, and the cause of the collapse has not yet been determined.