Emergency Services have confirmed that the dead body of a woman was spotted on the beach Los Guíos in Los Gigantes, which is in the municipality of Santiago of the Teide, which needed the fire brigade to recover due to difficult access to the area.
Emergency Services were alerted at 10:00 am yesterday (Tuesday) by the Guardia Civil, requesting the assistance of the fire service to recover the body. Even after their arrival at the scene, it wasn’t until 12.30pm that they were authorised to remove it, needing permission from the Judicial Police who a treating the area as a crime scene.
After recovering the body, it was transferred by boat to the port at Los Gigantes in a nest stretcher, where coroners were waiting to take it away for an autopsy, as the cause of death is unknown.
At the moment the woman’s identity has not been officially confirmed, although there have been posts circulating on social media looking for a British female who has been missing in the area since Sunday night, and it is thought to be her.
