Police are investigating whether it was the body of a 47-year-old Arara resident who had been missing since after being swept away by his car near the Dalia River.
Rescue forces resumed searches for a 47-year-old man from Arara, who had been missing since yesterday after being driven with his car near Highway 6 in the Givat Nili area. This morning, a vehicle with a trapped life was found in Dalia River in Ramot Menashe. That it was absent from the cave.
Photo: MDA Operation Documentation
Police updated that as of 6 a.m., scans began in the Dalia River area with the aid of a helicopter and IDF units, volunteers, Carmel Galilee rescue units and dogs. Last night, the missing person was traveling with his son in their car in the creek area near Nili Hill, and when they tried to cross it they were flooded. The son managed to get out of the vehicle, but the father drifted down the wadi. The Zichron Yaacov Police Department opened a CCP last night to increase searches.
Meanwhile, the coastal road is still blocked for traffic due to flooding from the Atlit interchange to the memory interchange in both directions.
Yesterday, the name of the extra dead man was allowed in the rainstorm: Eran Hernstadt, 72, a resident of Binyamina. Hernstadt, a father of three children, drowned to death inside his car in Binyamina after being caught in the flood.
Hernstadt got into a flood on Guy Street in Binyamina. He got carried away with his vehicle in the stream of water, and was apparently trapped inside. The firefighters who arrived at the scene rescued him with the help of three engineering mechanical tools, with no life. MDA staff ruled his death instead.
Hernstadt's vehicle // Photo: Michelle Dot Com
In the Taninim stream, there are still extensive searches for a 50-year-old man who was in his car with two other people and was swept away in the water. The other two managed to extract themselves and were treated by MDA due to mild hypothermia.
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MDA paramedic, Zvika Weiss: "We received a report from MDA about a vehicle that was flooded and searches were conducted for three people who were in it. Later, it was updated that two of the passengers, a 20-year-old man and a 52-year-old man, managed to get to the West Bank and were rescued by the fire brigade and a rescue squad with us near the Ein Tut interchange on Route 6. They were fully conscious and upset, their clothing was wet and they suffered a slight hypothermia. We quickly put them into the heated intensive care unit and performed medical examinations while evacuating to the hospital when their condition was stable. "
Dean Shoshani and Hari Fall were brought to burial in Yarkon Cemetery on Sunday. The two perished after being trapped in an elevator that was flooded during a storm hit in the center area yesterday. Remember, the two tried to get to their car in the underground car park in the building where they lived in the Hope neighborhood in southern Tel Aviv, but it stopped working and the rainwater filled it. Rescue crews who arrived at the two after about an hour determined Shoshani’s death at the scene, evacuating Autumn in a human condition to the hospital - but there the doctors had to determine her death.