Spanish rescue teams search for missing British teenager in Tenerife ravine
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Tenerife rescue officials searching for the British teenager, who went missing on June 17.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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TENERIFE, Spain – Spanish rescue teams were searching an area around the Masca Ravine in Tenerife island’s remote national park on June 20 for a British teenager who went missing on June 17, a spokeswoman for the emergency services said.
Dozens of police officers, rescue teams and firefighters have been looking in the steep valley located on the Canary island’s Western coast with dogs, drones and a helicopter since June 19.
“Given the information we have, we do not rule out any hypothesis,” the spokeswoman said.
The investigation showed the teenager, aged 19, was probably somewhere in the wild, forested area located above the island’s shore, she said.
A rescue officer told Reuters a relative received a message from the teenager before he went missing saying he had suffered a leg injury. REUTERS
Friends of the young man joined in the search for him, in Tenerife’s Masca Ravine.
PHOTO: REUTERS
