A 13-year-old girl was pronounced dead after being pulled from the Jordan River on Saturday evening without pulse or breathing. Police said the search for a second missing person in the same area is ongoing.
Police confirmed on Saturday evening that the search for a second missing person in the Jordan River is ongoing, after a 13-year-old girl was pulled from the water without a pulse or breathing and pronounced dead at the scene. The development comes several minutes after earlier reports that the girl had been recovered and that searches for another individual were underway. As of 20:12 Jerusalem, no further details about the second missing person or the circumstances of the incident have been released.
Earlier at 20:12 Jerusalem, The Zioneer reported that Fire and Rescue Service divers had recovered the girl's body and that paramedics had pronounced her dead. The first dispatch of the same timestamp noted that MDA paramedics had reported her drowning near Beit She'an, with firefighters rescuing her after an extended search. The thread shows consistent reporting from a single newsroom source—Israeli media—across all three versions, without additional corroboration from multiple independent sources at this stage.
As The Zioneer reported on Saturday evening, the original rescue effort involved firefighters and MDA paramedics, and the girl was found without vital signs. The search area remains the Jordan River, and police have not specified the age or identity of the second missing person.
The exact circumstances of the drowning remain unclear, and no official statement from police or rescue services has provided a timeline of events or cause of the incident. The second missing person's status—whether a child or adult, and their relationship to the first victim—has not been disclosed.
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