Brit tourist, 24, missing in Costa Brava as Spanish cops launch major search
DESPERATE HUNT Brit tourist, 24, missing in Costa Brava as Spanish cops launch major search with helicopters, drones and sniffer dogs
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A MAJOR search is underway 24-year-old Brit believed to have vanished on Spain's Costa Brava.
A maritime police unit and a helicopter - as well as sniffer dogs - have been deployed to support the operation.
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Lloret de Mar beach, Costa Brava seascape
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The hunt is focusing on the resort of Tossa de Mar north of Barcelona, which is where the missing man's phone was last located.
A van believed to be his has been found at a scenic viewpoint close to steep cliffs near Tossa de Mar.
Regional Mossos d'Esquadra police launched their operation yesterday after the man's family reported him missing in the UK.
The force then received an alert from Interpol.
The van, thought to have been abandoned some days ago, was found a few hours into the search which.
Local media reported overnight the 24-year-old had disappeared in the UK three weeks ago on April 30.
The search is expected to resume at first daylight tomorrow.
No-one from the police force leading the search could be reached for comment late last night.
A British tourist went missing at Alicante airport at the end of March after a stag do in Benidorm before being found.
Jason Taylor, 36, vanished as he waited for a flight back to Birmingham, sparking a police manhunt which had a happy ending nearly four days later on April 1 when he was spotted walking along a nearby beach.
Police sources said after he was found that the fact he didn't have his mobile phone on him had caused him extra complications.
Tossa de Mar is about 60 miles north of Barcelona and the same distance south of the French border.
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