A young man disappears on the beach of Las Gaviotas in Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Emergency personnel have started a search device for a young man who disappeared this Saturday when he was bathing on Las Gaviotas beach in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, in an incident in which two other people have been rescued.

According to sources from the 112 Emergency and Security Coordination Center, the deployment of rescue means is underway and was activated after receiving a notice of an incident in the waters of the aforementioned beach that affected three young people.

Two of them have been transferred to a health center for evaluation and a search device for the third has begun, in which patrol boats from the Maritime Rescue and Civil Guard participate, as well as agents from the Local and National Police, the sources added.