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Boulders crash onto Spanish beach, at least two dead

Posted : Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:28:40 GMT
By : dpa
Category : Europe (World)
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Santa Cruz, Spain - Two people were killed when boulders crashed on to a popular beach location on the Spanish Canary Island resort of Tenerife, local media reported Sunday. Six people were trapped underneath the rocks, with two women - a Briton and a Spaniard - were pulled dead from the rocks while the rest remain missing.

The beach on the coast area known as Los Gigantes is located beneath a rockface. According to the internet edition of the daily La Opinion de Tenerife, falling rock as large as five metres thick fell 50 metres to the beach.

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