A BRIT dad-of-two has died after falling from a sixth-floor balcony at his Costa del Sol hotel.
The 37-year-old was staying at the hotel in the popular resort of Torremolinos with his partner.
His wife and two young children – both believed to be under the age of ten – were allegedly sleeping inside their room when the tragedy happened in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Emergency responders rushed to the hotel, which has not been named, after receiving several 999 calls.
But paramedics were unable save the holidaymaker and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Brit’s partner reportedly told police he stayed on the balcony alone after they enjoyed a few drinks together before she went to bed.
She also believes he fell to his death accidentally.
Officers from Spain’s National Police have since launched a probe into the fatal fall.
They could not be reached early this morning for comment.
It comes after a 24-year-old British holidaymaker was critically injured after falling from his hotel in Puerto Banus near Marbella on the Costa del Sol.
He was staying in a first-floor room with friends who are said to have been sleeping when he fell last May.
The injured tourist fell to the street below the Hard Rock Hotel in what was the equivalent of a three-storey fall because of the area it is in.
He is said to be from Hessle near Kingston upon Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire as friends launched a GoFundMe appeal following his “horrific freak accident.”
According to his friend, he was admitted to the Regional University Hospital of Malaga his “life-threatening” injuries included a bleed on the brain, multiple broken bones and severe internal damage.
Meanwhile, a woman was killed in Torremolinos last month when a palm tree fell on top of her during a storm.
She was identified hours after the January 27 tragedy as a 31-year-old Moroccan migrant who was on her way to pick up her residency card.
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