San Antonio Ibiza: British boy, 8, plunges three storeys from hotel after losing his balance fetching a towel hanging over balcony

The eight-year-old has suffered a traumatic brain injury as well as a skull fracture and broken jaw following the horror fall on Tuesday night (27 May). The boy fell from the third floor of a hotel in San Antonio, Ibiza.

He was with his grandmother at the time, according to local news outlets. Police investigators confirmed overnight the incident was being treated as an accident, and hospital chiefs are expected to update the injured youngster’s condition later today.

He was airlifted to an intensive care unit at Majorca’s Son Espases Hospital following an emergency op at a private local clinic. The unnamed child went over the edge of his balcony at the Aparthotel Vibra Bay in the Ibizan holiday resort of San Antonio just before 8.30pm on Tuesday.

A regional government-run emergency response coordination centre activated a poly trauma alert so the first hospital he was taken to could prepare for his arrival. Civil Guard chiefs issued a green alert so officers could clear traffic for the ambulance and make sure the youngster got to the medical centre as soon as possible.

Medics diagnosed severe brain trauma, saying he had a skull fracture, subdural haematoma and a cerebral oedema. They also listed injuries including a fractured jaw and chest trauma. The transfer to Majorca reportedly occurred because no paediatric intensive care unit beds were available in Ibiza.