MAJORCA MOURNS AS FIRST OF THE HOTEL COLLAPSE VICTIMS IS BURIED

PALMA
THE three men arrested in connection with Tuesday's fatal hotel collapse in Cala Ratjada began appearing in a Manacor court yesterday afternoon, just hours before the youngest of the four victims was buried in Capdepera.

The architect, foreman and site manager of the Hotel Son Moll reformation project were arrested on Tuesday night and were yesterday moved from the Guardia Civil headquarters in Palma to Manacor Court House to be questioned by the judge in charge of the investigation in to why a three-storey hotel annex collapsed crushing four site workers to death.

At midday, over 1'000 people including family, friends and colleagues of 27-year-old local builder Jose Maria Fernadez held another minute's silence outside Capdepera Town Hall and at 7.45pm, he was buried.