COR­REC­TION: A sto­ry in Tues­day's pa­per (Page A5) quot­ed Joseph Mo­han­lal, a di­rec­tor of Hik­ers Inc, com­ment­ing on an in­ci­dent in which two mem­bers of a group hike to La La­ja wa­ter­fall went miss­ing on Sun­day. How­ev­er, Hik­ers Inc was not the or­gan­is­er of the hike in ques­tion. Our apolo­gies to Hik­ers Inc for fail­ing to make that clear in the sto­ry.

Two hik­ers who were re­port­ed miss­ing on Sun­day af­ter­noon dur­ing a trek to La La­ja Falls in the Heights of Gua­napo were found un­hurt yes­ter­day morn­ing.Aleeyah Mo­hammed, 18, of El So­cor­ro, and Ar­shad Mo­hammed, 18, (no re­la­tion) of Kel­ly Vil­lage, Ca­roni, were re­port­ed miss­ing dur­ing a head­count tak­en dur­ing the hike.

Friends said Aleeyah and Ar­shad were part of a group of 40 peo­ple who were with a hik­ing club that day.A re­port said around 2.45 pm, they walked in­to a forest­ed area when Aleeyah and Ar­shad got sep­a­rat­ed from the group. Rel­a­tives and friends im­me­di­ate­ly made on­line re­quests for vol­un­teers and be­gan search­ing for them.

A re­port was made to the Ari­ma po­lice and a search par­ty was or­gan­ised by of­fi­cers from the De­fence Force's army camp in Cu­mu­to un­der Cpl Jones.North­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force po­lice and North East­ern Di­vi­sion of­fi­cers, un­der Cpl Bharath, al­so joined the search and around 1 am the miss­ing hik­ers were found un­harmed.

Mem­bers of the Mus­lim com­mu­ni­ty who were alert­ed al­so prayed for their safe re­turn and al­so joined the search.Aleeyah and Ar­shad were tak­en to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex at Mt Hope where they were ex­am­ined and dis­charged.

Di­rec­tor of Hik­ers Inc Joseph Mo­han­lal said there could be many rea­sons why Aleeyah and Ar­shad got lost.He added: "The tour is sup­posed to come out as a group. I don't know if some of them were walk­ing fast or slow. Some peo­ple want to stay in the back and they prob­a­bly split up along the lines or got dis­tract­ed in a con­ver­sa­tion.