A British man has died after a 45 metre fall from a Mallorca viewpoint in the Formentor area of the island yesterday afternoon(March 31).
Witnesses said that the 56-year-old ‘threw himself off’ the top of the Es Colomer viewpoint and landed on the cliff rocks.
The Guardia Civil said he was a local resident who lived in nearby Pollenca.
A mountain rescue team got to him by using ropes to descend from Es Colomer and confirmed that the impact of the fall had a fatal result.
His body was taken away in a Guardia Civil helicopter for a post mortem to be carried out.
No further information has been released