Bodies found in search for four teenagers missing on Wales camping trip

Bodies have been found in the police search for four teenagers who went missing on a camping trip in Wales.

Jevon Hirst, Harvey Owen, Wilf Henderson and Hugo Morris are thought to have been travelling in the Harlech and Porthmadog areas of Gwynedd.

Supt Owain Llewelyn, of North Wales Police, stated: “At current, this seems to have been a tragic accident, and our ideas are with the household and pals of the four younger males at this very tough time.

“This has been an intensive search involving quite a few totally different companies and volunteers, and that is sadly not the result that any of us would have wished.

“We’d ask that the household be afforded the suitable privateness and respect.”

They have been final seen on Sunday in a silver Ford Fiesta, North Wales Police stated. Their automobile was found by search groups on Tuesday following data from a member of the general public.

A police cordon has been arrange on the A4085 between Garreg and Pont Aberglaslyn and the street stays closed.

Earlier right this moment, an air ambulance was seen in the world and two ambulance service autos drove by way of the cordon close to the villages of Garreg and Llanfrothen.

The Welsh Ambulance Service says it was referred to as at about 10:08am to reviews of an incident close to the A4085 between Nantmor and Tan-Lan in Gwynedd.

“We despatched an operations supervisor, two emergency ambulances and two Cymru Excessive Acuity Response Items to the scene the place we have been supported by the Emergency Medical Retrieval and Switch Service in two Wales Air Ambulance charity helicopters,” it stated.

All four boys had been learning for their A-Ranges at Shrewsbury Faculty, with Harvey’s mom Crystal Owen that they have been “all delicate, clever lads”, who had final used their telephones at round noon on Sunday.

It’s believed that the teenagers had been camping in the Eryri space of north Wales, a distant a part of the nation. Eryri Nationwide Park, also called Snowdonia, is Wales’ largest nationwide park, protecting a complete of 823 sq miles.

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