A British holidaymaker has died after plunging down the steps 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 on the Playa de las Americas resort in Tenerife.
Emergency responders rushed to the complex after reports of a dull person on the bottom but pronounced him dead on 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 speculation he woke up in the course of the night and left the fourth-floor apartment he was staying in moments before his fall in an accident from two floors down.
The outcomes of a post-mortem, which is able to include tests to find out whether he consumed drink or drugs before his death that might have influenced his behaviour, haven’t yet been released.
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It comes weeks after an elderly British tourist from Hartlepool fell from the second floor of his Lanzarote hotel right into a knee-deep fish pond full of Koi carp and terrapins.
Firefighters and medical staff needed to be called to rescue the pensioner, 70, from the pond at the favored resort of Playa Blanca on April 18.
A well-placed source has claimed the autumn is being treated as an accident because it appears he was attempting to peer down and take a 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 point firefighters arrived.
They lifted him out on a rescue board they’d strapped him onto before taking him to a waiting ambulance.
He was then evacuated to Molina Orosa Hospital within the Lanzarote capital Arrecife.
The holidaymaker was later transferred to the UK and brought to James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough with multiple injuries including broken bones and a head injury.
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