Yahoo News Jay Slater search teams in Tenerife find a different missing Brit
Spanish police searching Tenerife for missing teen Jay Slater have managed to locate a different missing Brit who had become "tired and disoriented". Locals alerted officers searching for the missing teen, after becoming concerned for the welfare of a 51-year-old man from Scotland.
He had gone walking in the Los Carrizales neighbourhood near Masca, where search and rescue teams have carried out the now week-long hunt for Jay. The officers broke off their hunt and managed to locate the man at the Asomada Gorge, where he had become trapped, reports the Mirror.
A spokesman for local police employed by the Buenavista del Norte town hall, the municipality which the village of Masca in north-west Tenerife near Jay's last-known location is part of, said: "Officers acting alongside a Civil Protection mountain rescue team have helped rescue a Scottish hiker aged 51 in the Asomada Gorge in the Los Carrizales neighbourhood.
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"Local residents saw how the hiker went into an area of difficult access which was not suitable for transit early in the morning and had yet to return to his starting point several hours later. They alerted officers who were at that moment involved in the search for young Jay Slater.
"He was found tired and disorientated by the officers and the rescue team who helped him out of the gorge." The spokesman thanked local residents for alerting the police, as the hiker likely would not have been able to leave the gorge without help.
They said: “We want to thank the local residents who alerted us to this situation because the difficulty of the terrain and lack of phone cover in the area meant this hiker would not have been able to get out alone and without the help he received." The successful rescue took place on Friday last week, but police only went public with the news on Monday evening.
The officers involved have been assisting the Civil Guard, a different police force which is leading the search operation for Jay, alongside firefighters and Civil Protection workers. Jay vanished after going back to Masca with two British men he had met at a three-day rave who were staying at a rented Airbnb in the village.
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