A hunt operation in Tenerife for a missing teenage boy from England has lingered on for the seventh day. Jay Slater, a 19-year-old from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, was last seen a week ago after he attended a music festival on the Spanish island. Special teams of dogs have been searching for the British youth who has not reached out to anyone since he contacted a friend on Monday, sharing his confusion and need for water. Spanish police have not commented on the matter despite reports of Mr. Slater being sighted after the phone call. His family has asked him to come back home.
Mountainous terrain at Rural de Teno National Park is where the last location of Mr. Slater was traced to. On the previous day, police, rescue dog teams, and firefighters had resumed combing the region, but no sign of the missing teenager was found. Mr. Slater had earlier separated from his group in Playa de las Americas, a buzzling tourist spot, and entered the car with two strangers he met after attending the NRG music concert at Papagayo nightclub. The search parties focused on places like land around the apartment in Masca, where Mr. Slater had allegedly planned to visit.
Rachel Louise Harg, the administrator of the Facebook page, employed to help locate Mr. Slater, has reported that someone unrelated to the boy had logged into his Instagram account. She has condemned people who have hacked the social media profiles of Mr. Slater’s family and called them ‘sick in the head.’ Outside of Spain, in Oswaldtwistle, community members have expressed their worry about the well-being of Mr. Slater. Reverend Matt Smith of the West End Methodist Church has organized a prayer service to be held on Sunday.
Spain has been adamant about not accepting any external assistance from other countries in the search for Mr. Slater, but the Lancashire Police has continued to offer its aid to the Spanish Police. This is Mr. Slater’s first holiday without his family, and he came to the festival with his two friends. Lucy Law, who had the last conversation with him, has reported that he was trying to walk back home after missing his bus, causing him to feel dehydrated and his phone nearly dead. The Rural de Teno Park is roughly a 40-minute drive from where Mr. Slater and his mates were staying. A remote and wild national park, it is one of the hardest places for the Spanish search teams to navigate due to its deep ravines and formidable mountains
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