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29 March 2024

Saudi police rescue two kids lost in the desert

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Saudi desert rangers found two children nearly two hours after they went missing in the heart of the Gulf Kingdom's deadly desert while on a safari trip with their father, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.

The father had told his children, aged 8 and 12 years, to stay in the car as he went in a long chase of a big bird in the desert outside the northern town of Hafr Al Batin, Kabar Arabic language daily said.
 
"After a long chase, the father wanted to return to his car but lost his way back….he managed to reach a police patrol outside the desert and told them about this children,” the paper said.
 
"After a search of nearly two hours by many police cars, the two children and the father’s car were found…they were in a good condition.”