Brit tourist, 19, ‘faces being left paralysed’ after smashing head into bottom of pool in dive at Magaluf club

Medics stabilised him at the scene for fear he could have suffered a spinal injury along with his head wound. Witnesses filmed his fall after spotting him risking his life after pacing up and down a narrow ledge on the outside of his balcony at the four-star Melia South Beach Hotel.

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A teen Brit tourist has been rushed to hospital after smashing his head in a pool in Magaluf[/caption] His condition when he was taken to Son Espases Hospital in the island capital Palma was described as “serious.” A BRITISH tourist has been seriously injured after diving headfirst into a Magaluf beach club pool and smashing his head on the bottom. Later the same day a Dutch tourist died after hurling himself off a cliff in a tombstoning stunt in front of his partner and two children. The part of the pool were the unnamed holidaymaker hit his head is thought to be only just over a foot and a half deep.

Civil Guard officers are probing the incident.

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He was later named as a former footballer called Mourad Lambrabatte. A post-mortem revealed he had drowned in a state of semi-consciousness after hitting the water rather than dying from impact injuries caused by smashing against the rocks as initially believed. At the start of May a 50-year-old Irish tourist was rushed to hospital in a “serious” condition after falling from a second-floor apartment in Santa Ponsa near Magaluf. The 19-year-old was rushed to hospital around 1.30am this morning after the accident. Police said he had been drinking before the 8.30am plunge and sources said he may have taken drugs.

Read More on The Sun It comes after a 34-year-old British tourist plunged to his death from the seventh-floor of his hotel in the Majorcan party resort of Magaluf on May 12. The venue where the incident occurred has been named locally as Oceans Beach Club.