Santa Cruz - Drama in the holiday paradise in Tenerife: Big rocks are thrown on the Spanish holiday island at a busy beach and have at least six people buried beneath it.
Two women, one Briton and a Spaniard, could be recovered only dead by rescue teams.
At least four other swimmers were missing according to the authorities under the crashed rock.
The accident occurred on Sunday at the - popular with tourists - Los Gigantes cliffs west of the Canary Island. , Which lies beneath a stunning cliff beach was visited because of the summery weather very well.
The boulders were, according to the newspaper "La Opinión de Tenerife thrown" up to five meters thick, and from a height of about 50 meters to the beach.
The black beach was covered in a section of up to 100 meters in length by fallen rocks and debris. The cliffs on the cliffs of Los Gigantes (The Giants) are as high as 450 meters and fall almost vertically into the sea from. The place is especially popular with British tourists.
A month ago, were there ever boulders crashed onto the beach. It was, however, no one was injured. Witnesses said the crash site had been considered since a bathing prohibition. The affected stretch of beach was cordoned off with plastic tape.
On the Algarve coast in southern Portugal had a similar accident occurred in late August. There were five Portuguese swimmers have been killed by falling rocks on a beach.
