19 Mar, 2018 @ 15:05
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Teenage girl in Spain rescued from eight floor ledge after trying to take ‘daredevil selfie’

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A TEENAGER has been rescued after trying to take a ‘daredevil selfie’ in Spain.

The 14-year-old girl was hanging from an eighth-floor ledge in Eixample, Barcelona, after falling while trying to snap a pic.

A friend of the unnamed girl called police who quickly came to the rescue.

Police said they found her frozen by vertigo while suffering a panic attack.

 

Cops tweeted a photo of the girl and the moment she was rescued.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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