Aftermath of New Year’s Eve in Madrid: 24 tonnes of rubbish, two seriously injured and 54 in hospital with alcohol poisoning
Thursday, January 1, 2015 @ 10:13 PM
NEW Year’s night in Madrid left 54 people hospitalised with alcohol poisoning, 58 fires including 41 wheelie-bins, 277 calls to the police over noise nuisance, 13 brawls and 24 tonnes of rubbish, of which nearly half was in the central Puerta del Sol square.
A total of 24 people suffered minor injuries in unarmed fights, two people are critical in hospital after one, a man of 58, fell down the steps of a bar and another after trying to climb into his flat through a window, landing 10 metres down on an air-conditioning unit which broke his fall.
He had locked his keys indoors, and the 35-year-old victim sustained a serious abdominal injury but is now stable and conscious.
The man who fell down the bar steps went into cardiac arrest, but was revived and taken to the 12 de Octubre hospital in the capital.
Between 20.00hrs last night (Wednesday) and 08.00hrs this morning (Thursday), ambulance and Civil Protection workers attended 226 incidents, of which 54 involved alcohol poisoning mostly affecting young adults aged between 18 and 25.
Emergency services took 4,735 calls on the 112 hotline, twice as many as on the first morning of 2014.
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