Jay Slater missing Tenerife latest: Search for lost British teen ...

A Facebook group launched to help find Mr Slater has reached over 142,000 followers since his friends and family set it up.

His loved ones are regularly updating the page with information, after travelling out to Tenerife to join the search.

Jay Slater’s last registered location was in the Rural de Teno national park, a remote mountainous area in north-west Tenerife that is popular among hikers.

After attneding the NRG festival in Papagayo beach club, he had travelled to a different part of the island with new friends that he had met over the weekend.

Shortly after 8am, he contacted his friend Lucy and told her his phone was about to die, and that he was attempting to walk back to their accommodation, despite it being a 10-hour hike.

His phone’s last location was registered at 8.50am in the rural nature park, with the search focused on the Masca hamlet, in the municipality of Buenavista del Norte.

A Civil Guard spokeswoman in Tenerife told the Daily Mail that “everything possible” was being done to find Mr Slater.

“A specialist Mountain Rescue and Intervention Group called the Greim have been mobilised. A police helicopter is also out and focusing on the area around the village of Masca.

“Other emergency services including firefighters have also been mobilised,” they said.

“Everything possible is being done to try to find the missing man.”

A final Snapchat post taken hours before teenager Jay Slater went missing shows him smiling and laughing with friends.

The 19-year-old had attended the final day of the three-day NRG festival at Papagayo Tenerife beach club, before leaving in a car with new friends to have a few drinks at their accommodation.

However, shortly after 8am on Monday morning, he phoned his friend Lucy to say that he was attempting to walk back but was lost, in need of water and was only on one per cent phone battery.

Jay Slater’s mother Debbie told the Daily Mail: “I’m obviously beside myself with worry which is why I’ve flown out here with my eldest son to do anything we can to help.

“We’re just praying the police or someone finds Jay. I know there’s a mountain rescue team out and a helicopter.

“Nothing’s ever going to be enough when your youngest son’s gone missing but it sounds as if the police here are taking this very seriously and doing the best job they can.”

A young British man has been reported missing while on holiday with his friends in Tenerife.

Jay Slater, 19, from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, was last heard from at around 8am GMT on Monday.

The Foreign Office confirmed it is supporting the family of a British man who has been reported missing in Spain.

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