Search for British teen missing in Tenerife halted and moved to other side of the island
The search for missing teenager Jay Slater has been reported to have been moved to a different location.
Jay, 19, from Lancashire, went missing on Monday morning in Tenerife after attending the New Rave Generation festival at the weekend.
He parted ways with his friends to stay out on Sunday (16 June) night with a new group.
The last person to hear from Jay was his friend Lucy, who revealed to the Manchester Evening News that he phoned her at around 8.50am on Monday (17 June) saying he was lost in the mountainous area and his phone was only on one percent.
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"He's ended up out in the middle of nowhere. Jay was obviously thinking he would be able to get home from there," Lucy said.
"But then in the morning he's set off walking, using his Maps on his phone and ended up in the middle of mountains with nothing around. He rang me at about 8 o'clock morning saying his phone was on one percent, he said 'I don't know where I am, I need a drink and my phone is about to die'," she added.
His last known location was the National Park of Teno.
Although authorities, family and members of the public have been searching the area for days, the rescue mission is now reportedly moving to a different location.
Police have said the search is moving to the south of the island.
"The search operation has moved to the south of the island," a spokesman for the Civil Guard has said. "The search areas are Los Cristianos and Playa de Las Americas.
"It’s obviously down to information that’s been received as the investigation has progressed. As things stand at the moment the search in the mountainous area near Masca in the north has been halted.”
It's not clear why the search has moved, but the area is said to be close to the tourist areas where Jay was staying.
A Facebook group set up to help find Jay now has over 165,000 members, with many volunteering to fly over from the UK to help.
The group also posted a video of the teen which had come from Snapchat.
In the video, he is seen in a grey t-shirt with green stripes on the shoulders and is carrying a black bag.
If he was wearing this on Sunday night then it's likely what he was wearing when he went missing the next morning.
Jay's family were told the terrible news that the teen was missing at 2:30am on Tuesday (18 June), with his stepfather Andy saying that police knocked on their door and told them 'the best thing you can do is get yourself out there'.
The teen's mother flew out to Tenerife the same day, and said she was 'obviously beside [herself] with worry' upon arriving on the island.
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said in a statement: "We are supporting the family of a British man who has been reported missing in Spain and are in contact with the local authorities."
LADbible Group has contacted the Civil Guard for further comment.
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