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A UK holiday hotspot is on ‘red alert’ after monster 15ft waves battered the European Union island - and tourists were swept out to sea with three killed. Saturday was described as "the most tragic day" over the last ten years of records on the island.

Three people have died and at least 15 were injured in separate incidents linked to rough seas battering the Spanish island of Tenerife pulling several people into the ocean, emergency services said.

A rescue helicopter airlifted a man who had fallen into the water at a beach in La Guancha, a municipality in the north of the island, but he was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital.

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A local newspaper, El Día, said the man was a 43-year-old Spania

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