Israel: arrests after ten teenagers drown in flash flood

Victim had warned friends ‘we’re going to die’ after organisers disregarded weather warnings

Israel drowning
Israeli emergency services search for the missing hikers yesterday
(Image credit: Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images)

Two school employees have been arrested, and a third place under house arrest, after ten Israeli high-school students drowned during a hike.

Nine girls and one boy, most of them aged 17 or 18, were swept away to their deaths yesterday when flash floods engulfed Nahal Tzafit, a riverbed canyon in the Arava region, south of the Dead Sea.

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