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Never seen before. A nine-story pillar, a challenge to the laws of physics that seemed impossible just a few years ago, completed this Sunday in the plaza de la Vila de Vilafranca (Alt Penedès) on the diada de Sant Fèlix by a colla castellera accustomed to breaking the barriers of the món casteller. The Castellers de Vilafranca will go down in history as the first colla to complete the nine with folre, manilles, and puntals. A stratospheric construction, with a triple reinforcement structure at the base, that must mobilize more than 200 castellers to become a reality. Madness.

A traffic accident in Ribera d’Urgellet (Alt Urgell) has left five people injured this Sunday, three of them in critical condition, according to emergency services. The incident occurred around 17:49 on a rural road near the C-14 highway, in the Bor de Poblador area.

A 16-year-old boy died after being run over this Saturday in Castelldefels (Baix Llobregat) by a car that fled the scene, according to the Castelldefels Local Police.

Fatal drownings along the 280 kilometers of beaches in Catalonia, from north to south, occur throughout the bathing season, from mid-June to the end of September. Despite the resources invested in prevention, self-protection campaigns, lifeguarding, surveillance, and rescues, the mortality rate on beaches due to drownings in the sea has become chronic. Between 20 and 25 bathers drown each summer. In the last six bathing seasons (2021-2026), a total of 129 people went for a swim on a Catalan beach but never returned.

A suction entrapment could be behind the accidental death of a couple found in a jacuzzi in a residential area of Cullera. The Civil Guard continues to investigate, awaiting the results of the autopsies, the death of a 48-year-old man and a 51-year-old woman, whose lifeless bodies were found on Tuesday afternoon by their two minor children. He was a New Zealand national, although the family lived in Ireland, where his wife was originally from.

Two youth players from RCD Mallorca, one of them a minor, have been arrested for secretly recording the sexual encounter that one of them had with a minor, according to the Balearic newspaper ‘Última Hora’ and confirmed by sources from the National Police.

The fire that has been burning since this noon in the Gobla de Puyol Pujol, one of the three canals that connect the lake of l’Albufera with the Mediterranean Sea, has already forced the preventive evacuation of the town of El Saler and the campsites in the area. This measure was taken at the Cecopal meeting, where, in addition, the mobilization of EMT buses for the transfer of residents was approved.

The fire in the Collserola natural park has burned the interior of a 54-hectare perimeter and by noon this Wednesday it was stabilized, though not extinguished, according to the Barcelona Firefighters. This time, the fire, pushed by the wind, approached the row of houses closest to the mountain in the Torre Baró neighborhood. As a precaution, 35 residents of Castellví and Lliçà streets were evacuated from their homes, to which they returned before eleven at night. Regarding the origin and causes of the flames, the Mossos d’Esquadra and Agents Rurals are investigating the starting point. A place where the police found a lighter and a cigarette butt they are working with, along with a list of some suspects. But the same sources warn that it is still too early to draw conclusions.

Several people have been injured, three of whom have required hospital transfer, after the explosion of pyrotechnic material on the balcony of Noáin Town Hall at the start of its patron saint festivities. At the Hospital Universitario de Navarra, three males aged 53, 54, and 41 are being treated for burns and are currently undergoing assessment, according to information provided by the Health Department of the Navarrese Government. According to the Town Hall of Elorz Valley, to which Noáin belongs, two of the seriously injured have a reserved prognosis.

Anger spreads among the residents of the Nou Barris district of Barcelona after the fire -already stabilized- that broke out yesterday afternoon in the Collserola mountain range, convinced that the fire was deliberately started or the result of negligence.