ISSUE NO. 1632
13 - 19 October 2016
COSTA DEL SOL
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Tragedy in Marbella
By Matt Ford Marbella Council has announced three days of official mourning and suspended all incidents on the municipal calendar in the wake of the tragic death of a two-year-old boy on a city centre street. The youngster died after falling three metres from a section of pavement with a missing railing in the La Patera neighbourhood. He suffered a serious head injury in the fall on Friday, October 7 and although doctors at the Malaga Maternal and Children’s Hospital were able to
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keep him alive for three days, he eventually succumbed just after 6pm on Monday. The tragedy occurred when his police officer father collected him from nursery at 3pm and the two of them headed towards the family car which was parked nearby. As they approached Calle Conde de Casal, where the street widens into a small square, the child apparently ran away from his father in the direction of the fence, which overlooks a car park, before crashing through the small space left by the absent barrier. The father managed to get a
local resident to stop his car and rush them to the Costa del Sol Hospital, where medics made the decision to airlift the child to Malaga. He remained in intensive care without regaining consciousness before he died. The catastrophe led to an outpouring of emotion in La Patera, where residents raised vociferous complaints regarding the broken fence, which they claim has been that way for more than three years. The brother of the driver who helped the family immediately after the accident said: “He was coming into the street and saw a hysterical man carry-
ing a child with his hands covered in blood, so he took him to the hospital. “This [broken railing] is not one or two days, it has taken years, we have asked for it to be fixed several times, and now we have this tragedy... it takes two minutes to weld a bar.”