News | UK The hunt for British teenager Jay Slater, who went missing during a holiday in Tenerife , continues as rescue teams appeared to make no breakthroughs after another long day of searches. Police , firefighters and search and rescue personnel combed a vast area of land in and around the village of Masca on Friday. Emergency workers met in various locations throughout the day, combing bushes, overgrown terrain, hillsides and rivers but failed to find the missing 19-year-old.
Mr Slater, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire , disappeared following an attempt to walk back to his accommodation after missing a bus. He had attended the NRG music festival on the island with two friends before his disappearance. Search and rescue personnel carefully looked through dead palm trees covering a river at the bottom of the hillside near to an Airbnb property he had reportedly been driven to.
The owner of the property, who gave her name as Ophelia, told reporters she saw Mr Slater walk up the road past her property but did not see him again after that – describing the situation as worrying. A post was issued on Facebook on Friday which said Mr Slater’s family and friends were “drained beyond words”. Helicopters , rescue dogs and drones have been used in an effort to find the teenager, who was last heard from when he called his friend Lucy Law on Monday morning.
Officers have since been seen peering over the hillside and staring intently at the landscape through binoculars near to hi.