DAILY REPORT
Three missing persons were found on Wednesday during a SAR operation. The police are also looking for witnesses in a case where a man molested a young girl in Nuuk on Wednesday evening.
The night of Wednesday a major SAR operation was launched in North Greenland after three people had been reported missing. It was about three men who were on their way from Saqqaq to Qaarsut in a dinghy, but who had not arrived.
Head of duty Hans-Peter Berthelsen says on Thursday that it was possible to find the three missing persons safe and sound.
It was the Defense Force’s Challenger aircraft that spotted the three missing on Wednesday morning during the search. The three men’s dinghy had developed engine problems, but luckily they were able to get ashore.
On land, the three had made a fire, and this helped the plane find them.
According to the police, all three have been picked up and sailed to Qaarsut, where they arrived on Wednesday afternoon.
Witnesses are wanted
Warden Hans-Peter Berthelsen further says that the police are looking for witnesses to an incident that happened on Wednesday evening in Nuuk.
Here, a young girl was assaulted by an unknown man. The man told the girl that she should commit suicide and that he would kill her.
The episode took place on a path at the USK school in the center of Nuuk around 21.15.
The unknown man grabbed the girl’s arm, but she broke free by biting him.
– We are looking for witnesses who may have seen or heard something, says Hans-Peter Berthelsen.
The unknown man is described as 175 cm tall, of average build and with short brown hair. He spoke Greenlandic and was wearing a gray mask, a long black jacket, gray striped gloves and Adidas shoes.
