The search for Jay Slater, a 19-year-old British teenager who went missing after a night out in Tenerife, is now in its sixth day. Rescue teams and police focus on a rural village and the valley below.
Despite an extensive search involving drones, dogs and a helicopter, there has still been no trace of Jay Slater.
The 19-year-old, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, England, was last heard from shortly before 9am on Monday when he called a friend. According to data on his phone, his last known location was a trail in the Rural de Teno National Park in the northwestern part of the island. BBC.
According to Slater's friends and family, on the day the boy disappeared, he got into a car with two men – whom he had met while on holiday – and then left the group to travel to the tourist center of Playa de las Americas in southern Tenerife. .
Search teams are searching along the mountain road, initially focusing on one of the valleys, then continuing the search in the village of Maska in the valley. Dog teams have been working in an area near the farm buildings for most of the past day. Police and rescue workers searched a steep area behind the apartment where Slater was reportedly taken by car.
They saw him start the journey on foot
They carefully combed the river at the bottom of the mountainside, which was covered with fallen, dry palm trees. According to reports from the scene, investigators have been removing trash bags from the area in an attempt to find any evidence – so far to no avail.
A witness who owns a house and a café in the area where the boy missed the bus told reporters that he saw the boy walking on a mountain road near his property and that Jay Slater was never seen again.
The 19-year-old construction apprentice went on vacation without his parents for the first time and came to the island with two friends to attend a music festival. He told one of them – the last person he spoke to on the phone – that he had missed the bus and decided to walk 10 hours home, but he got lost, needed water, and his phone had a 1 percent charge.
a Rural Tino It's about a 40-minute drive from where Slater and his friends were staying. The wild national park is also far from Los Cristianos and Playa de las Americas, the party areas on the island's south coast.
Deep valleys and huge, terrifying mountains make it difficult for Spanish search teams to navigate the national park. At night, the countryside becomes a maze, pitch black, and it's easy to get lost, authorities said.
As reported by Index, this is not the first case of its kind this summer, as famous British TV doctor Michael Mosley recently disappeared while on vacation on the Greek island of Szyme. He went for a walk after lunch in the hot weather, but his body was later found under a rocky path.
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