Since Monday, a major search effort has been underway in Tenerife for a British teenager, reports say Sky News.
The last sign of life was a phone call with a friend in which he described that he was lost in the mountains, “desperately needed something to drink” and that his phone had one percent battery left.
Since then he has not been seen or heard from.
It is the fifth day that the rescue operation with helicopters, drones and search dogs is underway on the Spanish island of Tenerife.
During Friday, the police and rescue personnel searched, among other things, uninhabited land around the village of Masca in northwestern Tenerife, where he was last seen. A woman is said to have seen him there shortly after 8 o’clock when he asked her when the bus leaves, the newspaper writes.
“Lost in the mountains”
But since the phone call with his friend at 8.30 on Monday, no one has seen or heard from the British 19-year-old from Lancashire. According to the friend, he is said to have said that he was “lost in the mountains, was not aware of his surroundings, desperately needed something to drink and his phone was at one percent”, writes Sky News.
He is also said to have said that he missed a bus and would therefore begin an 11-hour hike to get home.
The 19-year-old was on holiday with friends and attended a music festival on the island near the village of Masca before he disappeared.
“Drained beyond words”
According to a Facebook page about his disappearance, his “family and friends are drained beyond words,” writes the newspaper.
The administrator of the page writes “Struggling to find words right now but all I can say is that we keep looking and everyone is doing everything they can”.
“We are drained beyond words – I just can’t say more, I wish I could. I wish this would end now, this nightmare,” she continues.
A British foreign affairs spokesman said in a statement: “We are supporting the next of kin of a British man who has been reported missing in Spain and are in contact with the local authorities.”