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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Deborah Cole

Three dead and 15 hurt after rough seas pull people into the ocean in Tenerife

Grassy hillside sloping down towards the ocean
Puerto de la Cruz, where a 79-year-old woman had a fatal heart attack when a giant wave swept 10 people into the sea. Photograph: Sportsphoto/Allstar

Three people have died and at least 15 were injured in separate incidents linked to rough seas battering the Spanish island of Tenerife pulling several people into the ocean, emergency services said.

A rescue helicopter airlifted a man who had fallen into the water at a beach in La Guancha, a municipality in the north of the island, but he was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital.

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