Around 28 hikers, who alerted authorities that they were lost on Sunday morning, 12 March 2017, in a heavily wooded mountain area of the La Jalda Waterfall National Park in El Seibo, were found by a brigade from the Ministry of Environment at 1am on Monday morning.
With darkness closing in, the hikers called for help when it became obvious they could not find their way out the Park. The excursion was organized by two people known only as Leonelito and Alex.
After receiving calls from family members of the lost campers, Onny Johanna Constanzo, provincial director of the Ministry of Environment in El Seibo, sent out the search party.
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