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Jennifer Joan Mills-Westley was murdered on 13 May 2011 in Tenerife.. Her death in a Chinese supermarket in the resort of Los Cristianos gained widespread publicity in the United Kingdom, where she was from, and around the world, for the horrific nature of the apparently random attack by Deyan Valentinov Deyanov, who stabbed Mills-Westley in the neck several times and then beheaded her ...
Dámaso Rodríguez Martín (December 11, 1944 – February 19, 1991), better known as El Brujo (The Warlock) or Maso, was a Spanish serial killer and rapist who, in 1991, was responsible for three murders in the Anaga mountain area in Tenerife, where he sought refuge after his escape from the Tenerife II Prison, where he was serving a sentence for a violation and one of his killings.
International Tenerife Memorial with Teide peak in the background Memorial plaque. The International Tenerife Memorial March 27, 1977, erected in memory of the 583 victims of the Tenerife airport disaster, is a monument located on the Mesa Mota on the outskirts of the city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna on the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain).
The Canary Islands (/ k ə ˈ n ɛər i /, Spanish: Canarias, Spanish: [kaˈnaɾjas]), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish region, autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are 100 kilometres (62 miles) west of Morocco.
In 1978, a second airport was opened on the island of Tenerife, the new Tenerife South Airport (TFS), which now serves the majority of international tourist flights. Los Rodeos, renamed Tenerife North Airport (TFN), was then used only for domestic and inter-island flights until 2002, when a new terminal was opened and Tenerife North began to ...
The wife of Roop Gupta, who was killed three years ago during an attempted robbery at his Madeira convenience store, didn't attend Monday's sentencing for the man who shot her husband.. She ...
Crews from Avalon and the L.A. County fire and sheriff's departments found the plane about a mile west of Catalina Airport. Five people were dead at the scene.
Lorenzo Olarte Cullen, 91, Spanish politician, president of the Canary Islands (1988–1991). [58] Marian Pilot, 87, Polish writer and poet. [59] Christopher Priest, 80, English novelist (Fugue for a Darkening Island, The Affirmation, The Prestige), small-cell carcinoma. [60] Pierre Raffin, 85, French Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Metz ...