Massive search effort begins after new information about Jay Slater | the world

Jay Slater, 19, from Lancashire in the UK, traveled to Tenerife in the Canary Islands to attend a music festival. But since June 17 he has disappeared.

His last confirmed sighting was when he climbed a mountain in the village of Maska, in the northwestern part of the island, where Jay was escorting two men to their lodgings after the last night of the festival.

Massive research effort

When Jay missed his bus back, he decided to walk the 11-hour journey. He called his girlfriend Lucy May Lu and told her he was lost, “thirsty and confused” and had only 1 percent battery left on his cell phone.

On Saturday, twelve days after Jay Slater disappeared, police coordinated a new “massive” search effort for him. The effort relies on Masca, volunteers from the rescue service and the fire brigade, but individuals are also invited to participate, he writes. Sky News.

The search begins after Jay's best friend, Brad, who was also on the trip, interviews Jay ITV News He said Friday that he had a Snapchat video call with Jay before he disappeared. During their conversation, Brad watched Jay first walk down the road and then continue down a steep incline.

-If he was thinking like me, he would have gotten up and started walking again. Brad told ITV he wouldn't have come all the way there.

Friend: Don't worry

Jay didn't seem concerned during their conversation, according to Brad. It was only when he was asked to share his location information that his friends became concerned and his friends realized how far he was from where they lived in Los Cristianos, in southern Tenerife.

“I thought he was going to take a bus or a taxi home because that's what he said he was going to do,” Brad tells ITV.

– Suddenly his phone went off, and now 10 days have passed without us hearing anything from him, he continues.

Brad says he prays every night for his friend to come home.

– I still have hope for him. I still feel like he's out there somewhere.