Pedrógão Beach, Leiria
Two brothers, 10 and 15, disappeared this Sunday afternoon at sea, while showering on Pedrógão Beach, municipality and district of Leiria. The searches were by land resumed at 7:00 am on Monday.
The alert disappearance of two children in the sea, in Pedrógãowas given at 5:25 pm this Sunday, through the Lisbon Search and Maritime Search Coordination Center (MRCC Lisbon).
Immediate searches began by sea, by the crew of the Salvida Station of Nazareth and Figueira da Foz and by a Portuguese Navy Ship (NRP Viana do Castelo), and, on the ground, by elements of the Voluntary Firefighters of Leiria and Vieira de Leiria. For the site was also displaced an aircraft from the Portuguese Air Force.
Searches for land by the two children, 10 and 15 years They resumed at 7:00 am on Monday, according to a source Civil Protection.
The searches were resumed with the means of the National Maritime Authority (AMN) and the Republican National Guard (GNR), a source from the Leiria Sub-Regional Command said to the Lusa Agency.
“Firefighters join the search at 09h00. Sea searches were never suspended, having kept a corvetal”He said.
Search operations are being coordinated by Porto Captain and local Maritime Police Commander.
According to, the Children are sisterswho were on the beach with his grandmother.
The younger brother will have entered the water, but was in difficulties due to the heavy ripple. The older brother then entered the water to try to save the younger, but the two were eventually taken by the current.
