21 Apr, 2020 @ 12:17
1 min read

Woman pensioner and 3 workmen hurt as scaffolding collapses in Costa del Sol’s Malaga

Scaffolding 3

A WOMAN aged 74 and three workmen were injured when scaffolding crashed to the ground in a Malaga street.

High winds reportedly blew the heavy framework over, with poles falling in Calle Senador Francisco Roman yesterday morning (April 20).

Scaffolding 2
HURT: Woman and 3 workmen were taken to hospital. Credit: SAB Bomberos de Malaga

Debris hit the woman leaving her with fractures to her hip and a leg.

The injured workmen were in the process of dismantlibng the scaffolding when it toppled to the ground, caught by a gust of wind.

Scaffolding 3
SHOCK: Passerby suffered broken hip and leg. Credit: SAB Bomberos de Malaga.

Two of the workers suffered minor injuries and another, aged 35, suffered a suspected broken leg.

An emergency medical team attended the woman at the scene before she was taken to the Hospital Regional.

The worker with the suspected broken leg and his two colleagues were taken to the Hospital Clinical.

Scaffolding
ACCIDENT SCENE: Scaffolding strewn across the road. Credit: SAB Bomberos de Malaga.

The causes of the accident at the El Carmen Residencial property development are being investigated.

Contractors had been dismantling the scaffolding since last Wednesday and had the last two of eight floors to go when the accident happened.

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Moreno|
Previous Story

Spain’s Andalucia to push for hotels and restaurants to open in summer to avoid ‘economic catastrophe’ but president admits fully recovering British market will be ‘impossible’

Eh9z34sxyaek3jl
Next Story

Bodies of man and his pet dog found in apartment in Spain’s Andalucia

Go toTop

More From The Olive Press

WIE FEIERT PALMA, SPANIEN, DEN FESTTAG DES HEILIGEN SAN SEBASTIÁN AN DIESEM WOCHENENDE?

von Yzabelle Bostyn Palma wird an diesem Wochenende die Festlichkeiten

Spain is bidding to build Britain’s groundbreaking €20bn nuclear fusion plant

SPANISH construction heavyweight Ferrovial has emerged as a frontrunner in