Police seek for youngsters who vanished on North Wales tenting journey in freezing temperatures – dwell | EUROtoday
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Clockwise from prime left: Wilf Henderson, Hugo Morris, Jevon Hirst and Harvey Owen had been final seen travelling in a Silver Ford Fiesta on Sunday within the Harlech/Porthmadog space
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A serious police search is underway for 4 youngsters who vanished throughout a tenting journey in Wales amid freezing temperatures.
Jevon Hirst, Harvey Owen, Wilf Henderson and Hugo Morris are thought to have been travelling within the Harlech and Porthmadog areas of Gwynedd once they disappeared.
North Wales Police consider the youngsters had gone tenting within the Snowdonia space and an enormous search operation involving helicopters, the coastguard and mountain rescue groups has been launched.
Temperatures within the space plummeted to zero in a single day and frightened family and friends say they had been solely outfitted with fundamental tenting provides as a result of they had been simply going for one night time.
Harvey’s mom Crystal Owen informed the BBC: I’m frantically frightened, we haven’t slept a wink, we’re determined to chase any lead we are able to.
“If I’d have known [where he was going] I wouldn’t have let him due to the winter weather conditions. They are all sensitive, intelligent lads and we are just hoping they parked up, got lost and are OK.”
They had been final seen in a silver Ford Fiesta, registration HY14 GVO.
‘Frantically worried’
The mom of one of many lacking youngsters informed the BBC she was unaware her son had gone on a tenting journey.
Crystal Owen, mom of Harvey, whgo is a pupil at Shewsbury College, mentioned the final time the group used their cellphones was on Sunday.
Her son had not logged onto his WhatsApp since, she mentioned.
She mentioned: “I am frantically worried, we haven’t slept a wink, we are desperate to chase any lead we can. If I’d have known [where he was going] I wouldn’t have let him due to the winter weather conditions.
“They are all sensitive, intelligent lads and we are just hoping they parked up, got lost and are OK.”
(North Wales Police/PA Wire)
Alex Ross21 November 2023 12:01
Rescue operation
Plenty of companies concerned within the main search operation, together with HM Coastguard.
The coastuguard helicopter carried out a searched of the world to the north east of Porthmadog at 4.30am, whereas on the bottom members of the Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue Team have searched automotive parks for the car the youngsters had been final in.
This is an operation masking a large space, and North Wales Police can also be interesting on the general public to report any sightings.
Alex Ross21 November 2023 11:55
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