British tourist, 24, dies in Tenerife stairwell fall
The Liverpool man had reportedly been at an electronic music festival with a friend before the tragedy
A British tourist, 24, from Liverpool has died after falling down a stairwell at an apartment complex in Tenerife. Sources said the man had been at an electronic music festival with a friend before the incident, which happened at Parque Santiago 2 in Playa de las Américas on Saturday April 25.The alarm was raised after a Spanish man called emergency services just before 6am, but the estimated time of death has been put at around 2.30am. That means the victim may have lain undiscovered for more than three hours.
According to police, the death is not being treated as a crime at this stage. A spokesman for Spain’s National Police said: “This is not being treated as a crime at this stage. Pending the full autopsy results, everything is pointing to this man suffering a tragic accident.”
The man is understood to have fallen from the second floor, although some reports suggested he may have been staying higher up in the building. Another source said he had been in Tenerife with a Polish friend, who was asleep when the incident happened and only heard about it later.
One insider said: “The friend was sleeping around the time the British man died and was informed about the incident hours after it happened. It would appear he fell down stairs but the exact circumstances of what happened are still being looked into.”
Emergency responders went to the apartment complex on Avenida Rafael Puig Lluvina after reports that a person was lying apparently lifeless on the ground. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
A police report has now been passed to a local investigating court, and the full post-mortem results will be sent to the judge handling the case.
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