Tourists evacuated at Tenerife hotel after fire as guest plunges to death

Hundreds of tourists were evacuated after a fire broke out at a Tenerife holiday hotel where a guest subsequently plunged to his death from a third-floor balcony.The double drama occurred at the four-star Melia Costa Atlantis Hotel in the northern port city of Puerto de la Cruz.The evacuation order is said to have affected 490 guests including several Brits, pictured as they stood outside the hotel in the dark while firefighters entered and left the premises.The nationality of the 23-year-old tourist who died after the balcony plunge from the room where the blaze started has not yet been revealed.