From the Liveblog of
Sunday, April 10, 2016
Two missing Chabad girls found unharmed near Orlando
Two 16-year-old girls from the Chabad-Lubavitch community who went missing during a Shabbat afternoon walk while on a class trip in Orlando, Florida, are found in a nearby area of densely wooded swampland.
The girls, identified as Rivka Moshe and Brocha Katz, both students of Bais Chana High School in Miami, left a resort in Kissimmee where the class was staying at 3 p.m. Saturday and did not return, school officials told Lubavitch news outlets.
On Saturday night, police officers from the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office began a search of the area with helicopters and infrared sensors and dogs, COLLive, the Chabad Lubavitch Community News Service, reported. Florida State Police reportedly took over the investigation early Sunday morning.
It took rescue teams more than an hour on Sunday morning to reach the girls, who were only several thousand feet from the resort, Chabad.org reports. The girls were being reunited with their parents, who traveled to Orlando from Miami after they were reported missing.
— JTA
