An Israeli
tourist went missing in Peru during a rafting trip after falling into the water and being pulled with the river’s current near Cusco, Peru.
As reported to Ynet, the traveler’s friends contacted the embassy in Lima on Tuesday night and an embassy representative is making his way to the location. The family was notified about his disappearance.
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66 days after shocking rape, murder of Israeli hiker Tamar Shahak in Arequipa, local media reports police have arrested three suspects in connection to case. Forensic evidence found in home of one suspect led investigators to his accomplices |
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Local rescue teams tried locating the missing man and local military and police forces were summoned to assist.
A year ago, a 20-year-old Israeli tourist was killed in a rafting accident in the Apurimac River. Amit Rubin, a member of a rescue team told Ynet last year about the place in which the accident occurred. “It is a very popular river, many travelers arrive there in order to raft. Unfortunately, this is not the first victim taken by the river.
“The place is very nice, there are beautiful canyons and the rafting there is organized. There are places in the river where the current is strong and sometimes there are whirpools, under certain circumstances it is very hard to get out of them.”
Rafting attracts many Israeli tourists to different locations the world over, but sometimes this activity ends in tragedy. Two years ago two Israelis were killed when a raft flipped over during a trip in Papua New Guinea. The two were part of a 12-person Israeli group.
Shlomo Haruvi, a 62-year-old Haifa resident who was the former vice president of Elbit Systems Ltd. was one of the people killed in the accident. The second person was a Tel Aviv resident in his 50s.
All three rafts capsized at one of the river’s tumultuous sections. The accident took place 200 kilometers (125 miles) from a paved path.
In the meantime, the media in Peru has reported that three men have been arrested in the murder of Tamar Shahak while she was traveling in the city Arequipa in the country’s south.
Tamar’s passport and a book in Hebrew were found at the home of one of the suspects who was disguised as a taxi driver at the time. A lock of hair and traces of blood were found in his car.
Peruvian President Alan Garcia Perez stated that he will demand a severe punishment for those responsible for Tamar’s murder. “The case in which a journalist and former Israeli soldier was killed because she dared to walk in the streets of Arequipa alone, shocked me,” said Garcia.
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