The Netherlands is in shock after a desperate 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 rural village of Beerta, in the northeast of the country, not far from the German border.
Police issued an amber alert – a message requesting public assistance in finding a missing child – on Sunday, warning that the children appeared to have been driven away by their father the previous day and could be in imminent danger.
“We have serious concerns for the…