Crime/Incidents news & information for Tenerife

A CHUNK of an aeroplane which crashed in Tenerife 41 years ago has been found in a private garden.

THREE men have been arrested in Tenerife on suspicion of sending a terrorist recruit to Syria to fight with the Jihad organisation Al-Nusra.

A HOMEOWNER in his 80s who shot a burglar to stop him attacking his wife has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison, but the prosecution plans to appeal.

VIOLENT blaze in southern Tenerife close to Teide National Park has already wiped out 544 acres and is still raging.

TWO men havve been arrested in connection with the hit-and-run death of a British boy in the Los Cristianos area of Adeje, Tenerife on Thursday.

A NATIONAL Police sub-chief in Tenerife has been found shot dead in his office with what appears to be a gun used in the force.

NUMEROUS partygoers were injured this morning (Sunday) when a nightclub floor collapsed in Tenerife.

Two men have died in a head-on collision on the TF-1 in Tenerife after one of them, a Frenchman, drove the wrong way down the motorway.

A BRITISH woman is reported to have lost her life after falling from a balcony in a hotel complex in Tenerife.

A BRITISH tourist has died in a brawl in the upmarket Tenerife resort area of Costa Adeje, emergency services report.

Peter Henley (pictured), a keen walker and photographer, had been on holiday on the island since December 6 but was due back on December 18.

Two women, a Briton and a Spaniard, died yesterday after rocks broke away from a 40 metre high cliff and fell onto a beach in Tenerife.