9 youths killed, 1 missing after Judean Desert flooding

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Nine high school students — eight girls and one boy — were killed and one was missing after they were swept away in torrential floods Thursday during a hike in Nahal Tzafit, a riverbed in the southern Dead Sea area.

Some 13 members of the group — who were taking part in a field trip organized by Bnei Tzion, a post-high school premilitary academy they had applied to — were found and retrieved by rescuers without harm, and two were lightly hurt.

Police units, the Air Force’s elite 669 rescue team and the local Arava emergency search and rescue unit mounted a massive operation to find the youths.

One student was still missing on Thursday evening and, after darkness fell, police said that efforts to find her would be temporarily stopped so as not to endanger the rescue forces.

“We are doing everything we can to find those still missing. Some have been rescued and some are still out there. We will keep going until we find them all,” police spokesperson Meirav Lapidot told reporters at the scene earlier, when several students were still considered missing.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/9-youths-missing-after-class-trip-swept-away-by-flash-flood-near-dead-sea/

[Mosby]

1. 7 of 9 students killed in flash flood named

https://www.timesofisrael.com/7-of-9-students-killed-in-flash-flood-named/

[grossproffit]

2. This is heartbreaking.

[Behind the Aegis]

3. Very sad.

One of my friends in Israel said her phone was flood by a flash flood while she was sitting at the computer! Living in New Orleans, I remember how scary flooding is.

[Mosby]

4. we have a lot of flash floods in Phx during the summer monsoon season

Most of the locals know to be careful but every year someone gets hurt or dies. The problem is that it doesn't have to be raining by you to have a flash flood, because the rivers and washes carry water down from higher elevations just north of phx.