Brit tourist, 25, plunges 22ft from supermarket multistorey car park on holiday island leaving him fighting for life
HOLS HORROR Brit tourist, 25, plunges 22ft from supermarket multistorey car park on holiday island leaving him fighting for life
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A BRITISH tourist is fighting for his life after falling from a supermarket car park in Ibiza.
The 25-year-old was rushed to hospital following the horrifying incident yesterday just after 8pm.
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The 25-year-old was rushed to hospital following the horrifying incident
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A tourist tourist is fighting for his life
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He plunged from the Mercadona supermarket car park in the holiday resort of San Antonio.
Paramedics in two ambulances stabilised him at the scene.
He taken to the private Nuestra Senora del Rosario Polyclinic on the island.
A hospital spokesman said he was admitted just after 9.30pm last night.
A well-placed source said: "Yesterday a 25 year old man fell from the car park of the Mercadona supermarket in San Antonio.
"He was taken by an advanced life support ambulance to the Nuestra Senora del Rosario Polyclinic where he was admitted at 21:38.
"The patient, a British national , remains in the intensive care unit in a very serious condition after suffering a traumatic brain injury with a skull fracture, dorsal vertebral fractures, chest trauma and a collapsed lung, as well as abdominal injuries and injuries to his spleen and liver all caused by the fall."
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