US EditionNetherlands Grieving Over Dead Children - Worthy Christian News
- Police recovered the bodies of two missing Dutch children, Jeffrey and Emma , and their father from a car submerged in a canal near Beerta on Tuesday evening.
- The children went missing on Saturday after their father, Klaas Bijl, 67, took them during a divorce crisis, prompting an amber alert and a multi-day search concentrated near Beerta.
- Authorities confirmed the car, a grey Toyota, was found in the Rensel canal a few kilometers from Beerta after a search involving police, volunteers, and specialist teams.
- Bijl reportedly told a friend on Saturday he planned to "take himself and the children to paradise," indicating an intention to kill and commit suicide, which was confirmed by a note left behind.
- The deaths ended a three-day search that deeply affected the local community and raised questions about preventing such tragedies amid known domestic issues.
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Netherlands Grieving Over Dead Children - Worthy Christian News
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Worthy News AMSTERDAM (Worthy News) – The Netherlands on Wednesday plunged into mourning as police confirmed that a three-day search for two missing children ended when their bodies, along with that of their father, were recovered from a car submerged in a remote canal. The children, a brother and sister named by police as Jeffrey, 10, and Emma, 8, had been missing from their home near the rura…
Groningen Village of Beerta in Deep Mourning over the Death of Jeffrey (10) and Emma (8), Flags at Half-Mast: 'It Is Incomprehensible'
The whole of the Netherlands is deeply affected by the death of 8-year-old Emma and 10-year-old Jeffrey. In Beerta, people are mourning. Flags are flying at half-mast in the Groningen village. It was the place where father Bijl lived and the young children were last seen.
Netherlands: Bodies Found Are Those of Missing Children and Their Father
The bodies found in a car immersed in Winschoten, in Groningen province, the Netherlands, are those of the missing children and their father, reports on Wednesday the Dutch organization of assistance to victims Namens de Familia. ...
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