Experts from the city council in Palma de Mallorca are still trying to work out why the building at number 21 calle Rodríguez Arias collapsed yesterday and are currently evaluating the state of the remaining part of the structure to carry out a controlled demolition of the rest of the building later today.

Approximately one third of the building is still standing and was due to be demolished at 11 o'clock this morning, but experts are still investigating the scene.

59 people living in the surrounding buildings have been evacuated and are either staying with relatives or in a nearby hotel, whilst the safety of their buildings is analysed.  They will not be able to return to their homes until the damaged building is safely demolished and only then if the council experts consider their buildings to be safe.

Meanwhile police have been able to use fingerprints to identify five of the seven people who died yesterday when the building collapsed.  They are Miquela Perelló (15) and her father Jaume Perelló (54) both native of Mallorca; Paulo Andrés Valencia (31) and his mother María Correa de Valencia (54) and Óscar Ortiz (38) from Colombia.

The wife and mother of Jaume and Miquela Perelló is still being treated in hospital, but her condition is not life threatening.  She has also been provided with psychological support to deal with the tragedy that has befallen her family.

The two remaining people still to be identified are the German couple who lived on the top floor of the building, whose fingerprints are not registered in Spain.