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Police in Mallorca are investigating whether a 29 year old Bulgarian man who passed away in Son Llàtzer Hospital last Tuesday, died as a result of heat or sunstroke.
Vladimir suffered severe sunburns last Saturday on Cala Major beach in Palma.
The alarm was raised by a lifeguard who noticed that the man had not moved for several hours.
Police are not ruling out the possibility that the man might have worn himself out while bathing, and fallen asleep after reaching the beach.
Swedish super-band ABBA's long-time drummer Ola Brunkert was found dead in his Mallorca, home over the weekend. Spanish police say the gruesome death was caused by a freak accident in which Brunkert bled to death after puncturing his throat with a broken piece of glass. According to CNN, police believe the drummer may have fallen against a glass partition that separated his kitchen from his garden, causing the glass to break and fatally cut his throat.A former drummer for 1970s Swedish pop group ABBA, Ola Brunkert, has been found dead after an apparent accident in his house in Mallorca, Spanish police said on Monday.Brunkert bled to death from a throat wound which police suspect was caused after he accidentally smashed a pane of glass, a spokesperson for the Civil Guard police said, adding that authorities were awaiting the result of an autopsy.
