VIDEO: Missing 62-year-old Emirati rescued from Abu Dhabi desert
- 06 Jul 2020
Gulf Today, Staff Reporter
The National Search and Rescue Centre, in co-ordination with the Abu Dhabi Police General Headquarters, on Monday carried out a search and rescue mission for a 62-year-old Emirati missing in Al Faya Desert of Abu Dhabi.
The Abu Dhabi Police’s operations room received a report on an Emirati in his sixties missing in Al Faya Desert of Abu Dhabi and suffering from chronic diseases and heart problems.
Using a search and rescue plane, the operation room’s team assigned to look for the missing Emirati was able to find him after his car had been stuck in the desert.
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The missing Emirati was evacuated to Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City for the necessary medical treatment after all the precautionary and preventive measures related to Covid-19 had been observed.
In June, the NSRC in coordination with the General Command of Sharjah Police carried out a rescue and medical evacuation mission of a 45-year-old Australian citizen following her desert bike accident in the Al-Bedayer area of Sharjah.
