42 children were reported missing on Monday during a school trip in Nahal Og near the Dead Sea. All were located and are in good condition, rescue forces announced at 8:30 p.m.
At 9:00 p.m. police reported that 18 children had been rescued, 21 were located by a drone and rescue forces were making their way to them on foot, and three others were located and made contact with a search helicopter.
By 11:00 p.m. all of the children were safely back with the rescuers and given food and blankets.
The children, between the 5th and 8th grade, were first reported lost at around 7:00 p.m. on Monday evening.
Volunteers in the Israel Police's Megilot Dead Sea Rescue Unit and other units arrived in the area and began to investigate.
Missing schoolchildren in Nahal Og are led back to safety on March 28, 2022. (credit: POLICE SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)
Drones were initially only able to find part of the children but eventually managed to locate all of them.
"Some 42 children were disconnected from the group and went off in direct directions," Matan Morad, a member of the rescue team, explained soon after the search began. "We do not have the exact number of children or their names yet. I hope that there will be a happy ending," he said.
A member of the Israel Police's Megilot Dead Sea Search and Rescue team uses a drone to search for a group of missing schoolchildren in Nahal Og on March 28, 2022. (CREDIT: POLICE SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)
On April 26, 2018, ten youths, nine girls and a boy from a pre-military academy, were killed after they were carried off by a surge in the Tzafit stream west of the southern part of the Dead Sea amid intense storms.
The_Noble_Oak on March 29th, 2022 at 04:50 UTC »
Today I learn: there were 42 school children missing.
ZoeyZoZo on March 29th, 2022 at 03:13 UTC »
The buddy system is flawless!
jl_theprofessor on March 29th, 2022 at 02:55 UTC »
Well thank fuck how do you lose 42 kids?!?