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Thursday, 27 July, 2000, 16:58 GMT 17:58 UK
Welsh teenager killed on Ibiza
Ibiza harbour
Ibiza is a popular destination for young Britons
A young Welsh tourist has been killed outside a nightclub on the first day of her holiday on the Spanish island of Ibiza.

Rebecca Watkins, who was 19 and from Briton Ferry, was knocked down by a car on a notorious road after leaving a crowded disco in the capital of San Antonio.

Fashion worker Rebecca is one of a number of Britons killed on the notorious "road of death" in recent years.

Rebecca flew out from Cardiff International Airport on Monday with a group of three friends for a taste of the famous nightlife of the Balearic island.

Her heartbroken friends came out of the club to see Rebecca lying in the roadway.


This has just ripped us apart. She was so beautiful

Julie Watkins

She was pronounced dead later in hospital.

Her friends were flying home after the tragedy - but her parents Julie and Alan are due to fly out to Ibiza on Friday to find out what happened.

"We are in such a state but I have to find out what happened," said Mrs Watkins.

"I cannot rest until I find out the full facts."

"This has just ripped us apart. She was so beautiful."

Shutdown

Rebecca, worked at the Dewhurst clothing company in Fforestfach, near Swansea.

She and her fellow workers went on the week-long holiday while their company shutdown for its regular summer break.

A Foreign Office spokesman confirmed Rebecca was a pedestrian killed in a road accident - and said it was a well-known blackspot.

"It happened on this particularly bad stretch into San Antonio where several Britons have been killed in the last few years," the spokesman said.

"We find that the arrive from Britain on holiday and forget the traffic travels on the other side of the road. They simply look the wrong way."

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