Diego Boto Galindo, 20, came to Cancun with a group of 39 Spanish students, the Quintana Roo state Attorney General’s Office said in a communique.

Authorities received notice at 6:30 a.m. of a dead body on the premises of the Hotel Be Live.

Police are investigating under what circumstances the young Spaniard fell from the third floor. His fellow students told officers that he said goodnight to them on Sunday upon returning from a discotheque, and after that they knew no more of him.

Boto Galindo’s body was found by workers during the first shift Monday.

via Fox News Latino.

Spanish police initially said they were questioning his brother-in-law after an alleged fight at a hotel, but later said his death was not being treated as criminal.

Stephen Storey, 47, had gone to the Catalan capital with his brother-in-law, David Brennan, but died on the first night of their long weekend break.

Father-of-two Mr Brennan, 49, lives just a few hundred yards away from his sister and brother-in-law in Neath.

The family said the football fanatics flew to Barcelona for a stag weekend and to watch the city’s superstars in a match tonight.

Mr Brennan’s father, also David, 69, said: “It is just unbelievable to realise that one of the boys is dead after going to Spain for a fun weekend.

“They ran a local football team together and were really good friends and drinking buddies.

“David is a big Chelsea fan while Steve supported Liverpool. They always had a lot of banter about soccer.

“The lads flew out and were looking forward to a great weekend at the stag do of their friend, who is from Glasgow.

“We don’t know exactly what happened – we are only getting little bits of information. But we’ve heard something went on outside the hotel and in a room. But my understanding is that David will be released in a couple of days.”

Mr Brennan, a father of three, lives with wife Alison in a smart semi-detached house just a few hundred yards from Mr Storey’s home, which he shared with partner, Clare Brennan, 42, who is Mr Brennan’s sister.

The couple have been together for 16 years and have two children, Amelia, nine, and Sean, 11.

Mr Storey also has two children from a previous relationship, daughter, Kadie, 25, and son Ben, 20.

The men were planning on watching Barcelona versus Athletico Madrid at the Nou Camp.

Mr Storey took time off from his job as a print manager at Viscose Closures in Swansea and Mr Brennan from his job as a manager at building supplies company Taylor Maxwell in Cardiff.

A colleague said: “Stephen was a lovely guy, hard working and a big sports fan.

“He loved his football and was a golfer.

“He was going to Barcelona to go to the Nou Camp and watch a game.

“Steve was in work on Wednesday and he was really looking forward to going away.

“He was a hard-working guy and had been with the company for three or four years.

“Steve was a typical, ordinary family man and he was well liked by everyone who worked here.

“This is a great shock to us all. It seems so strange that someone you work with every day you will never see again.

“The police came into the factory and simply told us Steve had died in Spain, they didn’t tell us any more details.”

Mr Storey’s family live in Liverpool.

Police were called to the Hotel Silken, just off the Catalan capital’s famous Ramblas, just after 2am on Thursday.

A police spokeswoman in Spain said they had questioned a 49-year-old man after a fight.

However, they later said they were not treating the cause of death as criminal.

via WalesOnline.

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero announced his government would set up an international committee to work against the death penalty. He said the committee´s aims would be to cause states to suspend the death penalty until 2015, and then cancel it altogether.

He said the day in which the death penalty disappears from the world would be the day that “humanity would be more dignified and humans more free.”

via Spain to work to abolish death penalty throughout world – Israel News, Ynetnews.

A charging bull has gored a 58-year-old man and killed him, Spanish officials said, in the third death this month during bull runs in Spain.

The beast's horn spiked the victim´s abdomen during the bull run held as part of annual festivities in the south-eastern city of Albacete, a spokesman for the representative of the central government in the region said.

The death comes 11 days after a bull gored a 41-year-old man in the chest during a bull run in the central town of Villaseca de la Sagra.

Three days later a bull pierced the neck of a 48-year-old woman who poked her head through a barrier during a bull run in the town of Arganda del Rey near Madrid.

Towns across Spain hold festivals in which crowds of people show their bravura by running ahead a pack of bulls, which thunder through the streets to the bull ring for a fight.

Thirty-seven people, including 11 foreigners, were injured this year during Spain´s most famous bull run, held every July in Pamplona.

via Man gored to death in Spanish bull run – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

A young Italian man was the latest casualty in the Balearic Islands of balconing, in which people dive from a balcony into a pool, the Spanish media reported yesterday.

The 26-year-old tourist died after attempting to dive into a pool from his seventh-floor hotel balcony on the island of Ibiza, online newspaper Diario de Mallorca said.

He was the sixth person to die from “balconing” in the Balearic Islands — Ibiza, Majorca and Minorca — this summer, daily newspaper El Mundo said on its website.

Hotel owners in Majorca and Ibiza plan to secure the balconies of their hotel residences to prevent their young clients from jumping, El Mundo added but did not say how.

via Balcony jumping latest deadly fad in Spain.

A man has been gored to death during a running of the bulls festival at a town in central Spain.

The 41-year-old carpenter was gored in the chest and died in an ambulance on the way to hospital, said Jesus Hijosa, mayor of Villaseca de la Sagra, south of Madrid.

The town near Toledo had been celebrating to honour the Virgin Mary when the accident happened.

Bullfights and the bull runs that often precede them have been the focus of attention after north-eastern Catalonia this year became the second

via The Press Association: Man gored to death in bull run.

Two of the victims were travelling in a four-wheel drive vehicle which was swept away by floods near Aguilar de la Frontera overnight. The bodies of the man and woman were found Tuesday morning.

The third person, a man, was killed by a wall which collapsed because of the rains in Bujalance.

Flooding also hampered rail traffic and blocked roads. Rescuers attended to several motorists who had got stuck inside their vehicles.

via Earth Times News.

The bodies of the animals were found on hunting grounds in the provinces of Zamora and Leon. They had died of pasteurellosis, which affects the respiratory organs of animals, the sources said.

Opposition representatives put the number of dead deer at more than 300. They accused the regional authorities of not removing the bodies in time, thus creating the risk that the disease could spread.

via Earth Times News.

A motorist was bludgeoned to death with a car jack after an argument erupted following a collision with another driver.

Paramedics desperately tried to resuscitate the man as he lay by the side of the road in Figueres, Spain, but he died at the scene.

Paramedics try to save the life of a man who was beaten to death with a car jack following a collision with another motorist

The driver died at the scene in Figueres, north east Spain

The motorist who attacked him fled from the scene, according to witnesses.

Figueres, in north east Spain, is popular with tourists who flock to the city to visit the Salvador Dali museum.

The identity of the victim is not yet known.

via Motorist bludgeoned to death with car jack after row erupts following collision | Mail Online.

A mother bled to death when she fell over her handbag on to a glass in a Spanish bar, a coroner heard.

Expatriate Sally Feeley was enjoying a late-night hot chocolate with friends when she tripped over her handbag in a freak accident in Malaga.

The 42-year-old hairdresser fell back onto a table with one glass, which shattered and pierced her left armpit severing an major artery.

Friends frantically battled to stem the bleeding but Ms Feeley, who lived on the Costa del Sol with her 12-year-old son, died in hospital.

The inquest into her death heard from the dead woman´s friend Karen Thornton, who also lived in Spain.

She said” Three of us had gone out for a few drinks and by the time of the accident we were drinking hot chocolate.

“We were also chatting to an elderly couple who were celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary.

“Sally stood up to say goodbye to somebody, but she tripped over a handbag and fell back onto a table with one glass.

“The glass smashed when she fell. I thought she would get up, but she did not. Everybody tried to stem the bleeding.”

Following the accident last October, a post-mortem examination was carried out in Spain, which found the 7cm cut severed a major blood vessel running under her armpit.

Birmingham´ assistant Deputy Coroner, Michael Snell, said: “I record that Sally Ann Feeley died as a result of an accident.

“She tripped and fell backwards onto a glass and received a severe stab injury. She died from a haemorrhage received from a laceration to the left armpit.”

Ms Feeley lived with her 12-year-old son Shea in Nerja, on the Costa del Sol.

The hairdresser had moved to Spain from Birmingham six years earlier.

Her brother, Steven Feeley, said: “She was very outgoing and very popular in Birmingham and Spain.

“She was a really nice girl. She´d do anything for anybody. She was really kind and considerate.

“The most important thing in her life was her son,” said Mr Feeley.

via Mother bleeds to death after tripping over handbag and landing on drinking glass | Mail Online.