Palma de Majorca, Spain - Spanish police have detained three people in connection with the partial collapse of a hotel on the holiday island of Majorca, where four construction workers were killed in the accident, police said Wednesday.

The detainees included an architect, an overseer and a project chief. Police said they could be charged with homicide and with violating workers' rights.

Officials earlier said the company carrying out the repairs did not have a licence and had been ordered to stop the work on the hotel Son Moll in Cala Ratjada in the north-east of the island.

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Palma de Majorca, Spain - A power cut Thursday left more than 500,000 households without electricity on the Spanish holiday islands of Majorca and Menorca, officials said.

The black-out affected all of Majorca and a part of Menorca. It caused traffic jams, cut fixed phone lines and affected mobile phone connections. Firefighters rescued people who got stuck in lifts.

Hospitals, ports and Palma airport functioned with alternative sources of energy.

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Palma de Majorca, Spain - The Spanish civil aviation authorities have suspended the operating licence of Futura International Airways after it sought bankruptcy protection, the charter carrier said Monday.

The licence could, however, be reactivated if Futura found an investor to finance its savings plan before 2009, the airline quoted the aviation authorities as saying.

Futura chairman Roman Pane earlier said the airline would reduce its staff of nearly 1,200 by half and trim its high-season fleet from 22 to about 12 aircraft.