A horror blaze tore through a Tenerife holiday hotel last night where a guest also plunged to his death from a third-floor balcony.
The double drama occurred at the four-star Melia Costa Atlantis Hotel in the northern port city of Puerto de la Cruz. The evacuation is said to have affected 490 guests including several Brits, pictured as they stood outside the hotel in the dark while firefighters rushed into the premises.
The nationality of the 23-year-old tourist who died after the balcony plunge from the room where the blaze started has not yet been revealed.
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