A holidaymaker said to be depressed following the suicides of friends in Bridgend has fallen to his death from a balcony in Turkey.

Twenty-one young men and women who lived around the South Wales town have killed themselves in recent months.

Adam Thomas is understood to have known at least three of them.

The 22-year-old steel worker had gone on holiday to get over their deaths. But he fell to his death from the fifth-floor balcony after a drunken argument with his girlfriend, Leah Powell, at the Litera Hotel, in the resort of Icmeler, on Thursday.

Last night police were investigating whether he killed himself. Miss Powell, 27, had told officers that her boyfriend had lost a number of friends among suicides in Bridgend.

According to a police source, she told them: 'Adam has been suffering from depression since he lost several friends in the last year - - they all committed suicide back home in Wales.'

A member of staff in the hotel said: 'They were both very drunk and screaming and shouting at each other in the bar. They went out into the street and continued fighting.'

The pair went to their room, and staff thought they had made up. But their argument started again.

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The restaurant where Adam Thomas and Leah Powell spent their last night together

After the fall, Mr Thomas was taken to hospital in the town of Mucla - a 45 minute drive away, but he died from multiple injuries on Saturday. Y

esterday-a family friend said Mr Thomas, from the village of Llangynwyd, had known three of the Bridgend victims.

'Everyone around here knows someone who has died or knows a family member or close friend of someone who has died. Leah has been very worried about Adam because he wasn't getting over it. She hoped the holiday would be a clean break.'

Mr Thomas had a music degree from Cardiff University. He started a job at Corus steelworks nearby, after his dreams of being a rock star failed to materialise. His parents were understood to have flown home with his body yesterday.

Miss Powell's father Roger said last night that Mr Thomas was not depressed. He suggested he may have been sleepwalking when he fell.

Councillor Mari Jones, of Bridgend County Borough Council, said: 'It is a terrible tragedy when we have had so much.

'They are a very nice family and everyone is very upset. He was a good boy and it is a terrible thing to happen.'

Mr Thomas was the second British holidaymaker to fall from a Turkish hotel balcony in a week.

On May 30 20-year-old Theo Paget, from Leicester, fell from a balcony in Marmaris. He broke his back after a four-hour row with his girlfriend Chantelle.