Efforts to find and rescue an Israeli hiker missing in Mexico were ongoing on Thursday.
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On Wednesday, 25-year-old Yanai Rimon, from Sderot in southern Israel, was hiking in the area of Las Nubes, near Mexico's border with Guatemala, with friends when he reportedly fell into a river and was swept away by the current. Rimon's friends said he had fallen from a height of five meters (16 feet) and been pulled into a waterfall.
The Foreign Ministry said in a statement that intensive searches were underway for Rimon and that his family had been updated.
As of Friday morning, the Israeli Consulate in Mexico was working together with the Department for Israelis Abroad in the Consular Division of the Foreign Affairs Ministry to locate Rimon.
The Sderot Municipality said in a statement that upon learning of the incident it "joined the efforts by family and friends to find Yanai and bring him back to Israel safely. Mayor Alon Davidi spoke with Foreign Ministry officials to help the family in any way needed … We pray for his safe return."
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