Local police said that evidence strongly suggested the remains were those of the teenager.
, local police said on Monday, adding that evidence strongly suggested the remains were those of the teenager.
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.The morning after attending a music festival, it is believed Slater had set out to walk from Masca, a village in the north-west of the island, to where he was staying in Los Cristianos in the south. It was a trip that would have taken about 11 hours on foot over rugged terrain.
Slater’s family had been notified and an autopsy would take place, with the case then being transferred to a Tenerife court to determine the cause of death, the spokesperson said.
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