{"id":225458,"date":"2025-10-25T22:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T22:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/225458\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T22:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T22:54:11","slug":"british-tourist-dies-after-20ft-fall-from-lanzarote-hotel-balcony-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/225458\/","title":{"rendered":"British tourist dies after 20ft fall from Lanzarote hotel balcony | Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A British tourist has died after a 20ft fall from a hotel balcony in the Canary Islands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Another Briton was left with serious injuries after the balcony railing reportedly broke off in the Lanzarote resort town of Costa Teguise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Spanish civil guard has opened an investigation into the maintenance of the railing and the hotel\u2019s security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">It has not been confirmed whether the two holidaymakers were friends or related. The name of the hotel has yet to be revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The fall occurred in the early hours of Saturday morning. The two men, aged 56 and 54, fell from the height when the railing collapsed, according to local media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Emergency services arrived quickly at the scene after receiving reports of the fatal fall at about 1.30am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The 56-year-old man died instantly, while the other was taken to the intensive care unit of the Doctor Jos\u00e9 Molina Orosa hospital, where he remains in critical condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A British tourist has died after a 20ft fall from a hotel balcony in the Canary Islands. Another&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-225458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}