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Frantic search underway for British teen missing in Tenerife
The 19-year-old disappeared after a night out with pals on a holiday to Spain
Locals, holidaymakers and distressed relatives have joined police in the search for missing 19-year-old Brit Jay Slater, who disappeared without a trace after a night out in a rural area of Tenerife.Jay travelled to the Spanish island with friends Lucy and Brad to attend the NRG music festival at the Xanadu farm restaurant in Las Chafiras, San Miguel de Abona, but the trip also included boat parties and nights out at the Papagayo nightclub in Las Americas and the Hard Rock Hotel in Playa Paraiso.
The teen vanished on Monday June 17 after a night of partying near the forbidding Teno Rural Park after palling up with some other festival goers. The last anyone heard from him was a message at 8.50am on Monday morning saying that his battery was going dead and that he needed water, sparking real fears that he is lost and alone in the barren and swelteringly-hot countryside.
Teams from the Special Mountain Intervention Rescue Group (GREIM) have set out on foot to search the park, while drones are scouring the bleak landscape in the west of Tenerife from the air.
Jay’s frantic mum Debbie has now arrived in the Canary Islands to assist in the search efforts.
“He’d been at a three-day festival so he would have consumed a fair bit of alcohol but Jay was snapchatting with friends before he went missing and seemed very compos mentis,” Debbie said.
“I just think it was a question of him not knowing the island well enough because it was his first time here and being a bit disorientated when it came to distances and not realising it was a 10-hour walk from where he went missing to his holiday accommodation.”
The last location ping from his mobile before the battery died showed that the young man was “in the middle of the mountains with nothing around,” his friend Lucy added.
The search for Jay has for now focused on the surroundings of the Masca hamlet, in the municipality of Buenavista del Norte, according to the Guardia Civil.
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