Diamond Member Pelican Press 0 Posted June 30, 2024 Diamond Member Share Posted June 30, 2024 Search for missing teenager called off by police Just now By Mohamed Madi, BBC News BBC Jay Slater, pictured with his mother Debbie Duncan, was on his first holiday abroad without parents By Tom McArthur, BBC News The search for British teenager Jay Slater, missing in Tenerife, has been called off, police say. “The search operation is over. Yesterday was the final day of the search,” Tenerife’s Guardia Civil told the BBC. The 19-year-old from Lancashire has been missing since 17 June, after he told a friend he was lost in the mountains. Police carried out a new search on Saturday with the help of dozens of emergency workers near the village of Masca, in the Rural de Teno national park. Since the teenager disappeared almost two weeks ago, the Spanish authorities have deployed helicopter crews, specially trained search dogs and drones. A This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up but was intended to be more extensive. It was hoped the operation would be a “massive search” but less than 12 members of the public had arrived at the meeting point shortly before it began, BBC reporters on the ground observed. The apprentice bricklayer had been attending the NRG music festival on 16 June, and his friends said they were out in the tourist hotspot of Playa de las Americas when he was seen getting into a car with two British men he met earlier in the night. The next morning, 17 June, he was tagged in a photo posted on Snapchat at 07:30 BST at an Airbnb in Masca, which was reportedly being rented by the two men. Investigators have spoken to the pair and they are “not in any way relevant to the case”. This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version. You can receive Breaking News on a smartphone or tablet via the This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . You can also follow This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up to get the latest alerts. This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up #Search #missing #teenager #called #police This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up 0 Quote Link to comment https://hopzone.eu/forums/topic/54813-search-for-missing-teenager-called-off-by-police/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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