Rescuers find remains thought to be missing UK teen

Spanish rescue teams in Tenerife have found human remains in the area where British teenager Jay 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.

"All indications indicate that it could be the young British man who has been missing since June 17 in the absence of full identification.

"The first investigations reveal that he could have suffered an accident fall in the inaccessible area where he was found."

The search in the village of Masca, near Slater's last-known location, took place in a steep rocky area, including ravines, trails and paths.

with PA