Wave kills four bathers in Spain’s Tenerife tourist hotspot

AFP

8 Dec, 2025 07:10 PM2 mins to read

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A wave swept away bathers at Tenerife, Canary Islands. Photo / 123rf

Four people died in Tenerife over the weekend and one remained missing after a wave swept away bathers on the Spanish tourist island hotspot, according to the authorities.

Two of the victims were Romanian and two were Slovaks, their respective governments said.

Two men and a woman died after
visiting a section of coastline closed to the public because of the strong swell affecting the Canary Islands archipelago off the coast of northwest Africa, the authorities told the local press.

Rescuers managed to resuscitate a fourth victim who had suffered a heart attack, but the woman died in a hospital in Santa Cruz de Tenerife today, the emergency services said.

Another person was still in hospital, while the authorities were searching for another missing person, a spokesperson for the emergency services said.