After going missing on Monday, three 12 year-old scouts were found on Tuesday afternoon, roughly 10 kilometres from their camp.
Naomi, Robin, and Gabriel left their camp site in La Roche-en-Ardenne at 09:00 on Monday morning to go to an exercise in the region and were supposed to return to the camp by 15:00. However, by the time the sun set on the campsite, none of them had come back.
The Mayor of La Roche-en-Ardenne, Guy Gilloteaux, told SudInfo that local police had been looking for the missing scouts since Monday afternoon, with the help of fellow scouts and parents.
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Even if police were equipped with a map of the path the scouts were supposed to take during Monday's drill, the missing children had still not been found by Tuesday morning.
One theory is that the scouts miscalculated the time and day of their return, and because they were in a remote section of the Ourthe valley with no phone connection, it was impossible to contact them.
Thankfully, at around 13:45 on Tuesday, the young scouts were discovered safe and sound in the adjacent town of Hives, 10 kilometres.
