A British teenager has mysteriously disappeared while on his maiden holiday in Spain after attending a music festival.
Friends of Jay Slater say they received a disturbing ‘final call’ before he is understood to have vanished.
The 19-year-old from Lancashire was on holiday in Tenerife in Spain’s popular Canary Islands, where he attended a three-day music festival.
He is understood to have stayed the night with some people he had just met before he vanished while on his way home.
Slater made a desperate phone call to his long-time friend Lucy about 8pm on Monday, telling her that he was in the “middle of nowhere”.
“I’m lost, thirsty, and have only one per cent battery left on my phone,” he frantically told Lucy.
The call then cuts out, supposedly because his phone succumbed to the low battery.
He was last seen in a popular hiking spot north west of Tenerife called Teno Rural Park.
In a Snapchat clip captured by his relative, Isabelle Price, on Sunday night, Slater can clearly be seen wearing a grey sports t-shirt.
Since then, a desperate search has been launched, with police and mountain rescue teams using drones and helicopters to scour the rugged landscape for any sign of him.
A civil guard spokeswoman in Tenerife said: “A specialist mountain rescue and intervention group called the Greim has 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.
“Everything possible is being done to try to find the missing man.”