A blaze has torn through a holiday hotel in Tenerife as a 23-year-old guest fell to his death from a third-floor balcony.
The fire at the four-star Melia Costa Atlantis Hotel in the northern port city of Puerto de la Cruz saw about 490 guests, including Britons, evacuated.
Guests were seen pictured standing outside the hotel in the dark while fire crews rushed into the property.
The nationality of the tourist who fell from the room where the blaze started is yet to be revealed.
Local emergency crews confirmed on Thursday morning the hotel death as well as the fire.
Authorities said in a statement that the first emergency calls “were received at just after 9pm last night”.
“(The calls were) saying a fire had broken out at a hotel in Venezuela Avenue in Puerto de la Cruz,” the authorities added.
“Firefighters, ambulances and police were sent to the scene and police began the evacuation of the hotel once they arrived.”
The man fell from the third level
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Authorities said they were informed “a man who turned out to be a 23-year-old client had plunged from a hotel balcony for reasons that are still being investigated”.
“He was confirmed dead at the scene as a result of the injuries he suffered,” the authorities said.
“The blaze was brought under control and put out. It affected a room which was ventilated afterwards.”
The Melia Costa hotel has not made any official comment,
