Human remains have been found by Spanish police searching for British teenager Jay Slater, who went missing in Tenerife.
Spanish rescue teams in Tenerife have found human remains in the area where Slater went missing nearly a month ago with police saying that evidence strongly suggests the remains are those of the teenager.
The Guardia Civil police said in a statement that he may have died due to an accidental fall in the difficult to access mountainous area, but the autopsy will show whether it was an accident. Slater, 19, went missing on June 17 and his phone was last traced to the Masca ravine in a remote national park on the Canary Islands archipelago.
In a statement reported by Sky News, police said: “The mountain rescue and intervention group of the Civil Guard has located the lifeless body of a young man in the Masca area after 29 days of constant search.
“Given the complexity of the case, the discovery has been possible thanks to the incessant and discreet search carried out by the Civil Guard during these 29 days, in which the natural space was preserved so that it would not be filled with curious onlookers. “
