29 April 2026 , 12:37
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A British holidaymaker has died after falling 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 alcohol or drugs before his death that could have influenced his behavior, have not yet been released.
This incident 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 70-year-old pensioner 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.
Head of Investigations