Brit tourist dies in Mallorca with 'shards of glass in head' as cops launch probe

A British tourist has died in Mallorca with police launching an investigation after he was found with glass embedded in his head. The 26-year-old was found dead at a rented house in Santa Margalida in the north of the island at around 7.30am this morning. Glass from a door was embedded in his head. Police have already quizzed several other people at the house, four men and two women. A spokesman for the Civil Guard said: “I can confirm the dead man is a 26-year-old British national. “The incident that led to his death occurred at a rented property in Santa Margalida. An investigation is ongoing. There is not much more we can say at this stage.” A well-placed police source said: “We are focusing on the theory the victim died in a tragic accident after hitting his head against the glass door but it is still too early to say definitely what happened.” No arrests are thought to have taken place. The nationalities of the other men and women in the property have not been made public. An autopsy is due to take place in the coming hours in the Mallorcan capital Palma. The ongoing investigation is being led by the Civil Guard. Santa Margalida is a municipality and historic agricultural town in the northern part of Majorca, a short distance from places like the Bay of Alcudia and about 30 miles from Palma Airport. It comes after another tragedy with a missing British man found dead on a Costa del Sol beach. Police, coastguards and Red Cross officials had been searching for the 25-year-old for nearly three days after a young man described at the time as a “foreigner” was seen entering the sea at a popular beach in Malaga called Misericordia Beach. The alarm was raised late last Wednesday just before 10.30pm after he failed to exit the water. A man’s body was found at the neighbouring Huelin Beach early on Saturday morning, on the sand and out of the water, but it was not immediately clear if he was the same person feared missing. Yesterday police sources confirmed the body was that of the man seen entering the sea and revealed he was a British national. It was not immediately clear today if he had drowned or died of other causes and the results of the autopsy, which will be sent to an investigating magistrate at a local court, are unlikely to be made public. A spokesman for Spain’s National Police confirmed the unnamed man’s death is not being treated as suspicious. He said: “The person found dead is the same one who went missing three days earlier. There is nothing pointing to any evidence of criminality.”