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A 24-year-old British holidaymaker died after falling ‘face first’ from the second floor of an apartment complex in Playa de las Americas, Tenerife. Emergency responders pronounced him dead at the scene following the incident at around 5.30am on Saturday.
A 24-year-old British man died after falling from the second floor of an apartment complex in Playa de las Americas, Tenerife, with police investigating the incident as an accident, focusing on whether substances may have influenced his behaviour, according to reports. Additionally, an elderly British tourist from Hartlepool fell into a fish pond in Lanzarote and was later transferred to James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough for treatment of multiple injuries.
The results of a post-mortem for the 24-year-old British holidaymaker who died in Tenerife have not yet been released, which will include tests to determine whether he consumed drink or drugs before his death. In a separate incident, the 70-year-old British tourist rescued from a fish pond in Lanzarote was transferred to James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough with multiple injuries.
British tourist dies on Tenerife holiday after plunging down apartment stairs | News World
The Brit is being treated at Nuestra Senora de la Candelaria Hospital (Picture: SOLARPIX.COM)
A British holidaymaker has died after plunging down the stairs of an apartment complex in Spain.
The victim, understood to be a 24-year-old man, fell ‘face first’ to his death at around 5.30am on Saturday at the Playa de las Americas resort in Tenerife.
Emergency responders rushed to the complex after reports of a lifeless person on the ground but pronounced him dead at the scene.
Police soon discovered that the Brit had spent the day at an electronic music festival in nearby Costa Adeje with a friend.
Officers are said to be working on the theory he woke up during the night and left the fourth-floor apartment he was staying in moments before his fall in an accident from two floors down.
The results of a post-mortem, which will include tests to determine whether he consumed drink or drugs before his death that could have influenced his behaviour, have not yet been released.
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The Brit fell from the second floor of the unnamed apartment complex (Picture: Getty Images)
It comes weeks after an elderly British tourist from Hartlepool fell from the second floor of his Lanzarote hotel into a knee-deep fish pond filled with Koi carp and terrapins.
Firefighters and medical staff had to be called to rescue the pensioner, 70, from the pond at the popular resort of Playa Blanca on April 18.
A well-placed source has claimed the fall is being treated as an accident as it appears he was trying to peer down and look at the fish pond before he lost his balance and fell.
Medical staff had already fitted the elderly tourist with a neck brace by the time firefighters arrived.
They lifted him out on a rescue board they had strapped him onto before taking him to a waiting ambulance.
He was then evacuated to Molina Orosa Hospital in the Lanzarote capital Arrecife.
The holidaymaker was later transferred to the UK and taken to James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough with multiple injuries including broken bones and a head injury.
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