Four people were found dead in Sharjah's Wadi Al Helo, an area hit by floods as heavy rain lashed the emirate, authorities have said. The National Search and Rescue Centre (NSRC) found the bodies as it conducted an operation to look for seven people who were reported missing amid the unstable weather conditions.
All seven missing people were found during the mission conducted in cooperation with the Sharjah Police, the NSRC said in its official Instagram account. Two people were airlifted to the Kalba Hospital and the other was a child who was saved by residents in the area. In a video that went viral on social media, an NSRC helicopter can be seen rescuing one person from the wadi.
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