![]() It is believed that the students who are still missing were in rooms on the first and second floors of the Hotel Montana when the earthquake struck and that the two faculty advisors were in the hotel's fitness center.ĪBC News' Kate Snow contributed to this report. Lynn's Hughes said late last night that Gengel is "devastated," but still "hopeful" that they will eventually find his daughter.īesides those three students, Lynn University is also searching for a fourth missing student and four faculty members. Stories of survival after being trapped by Haitis devastating earthquake have been few and far between. This is the part of the story that becomes mysterious. He was suffering from malnutrition, delirium, and was extremely dehydrated, but suffered no other physical injuries execpt minor wounds on his feet. Gengel then traveled to Florida to meet his daughter, but instead got the news no parents want to hear: His daughter was still missing. He was discovered 27 days after the earthquake happened and was taken to a U.S.-run field hospital. "She's alive," the thrilled father gushed to reporters. Len Gengel, whose daughter Britney was one of the students believed to have been located but then was determined to still be unaccounted for, had thought he'd seen his daughter in a photograph. "We don't know how this happened," said Jason Hughes, a spokesman for Lynn University. Three families of students at Lynn University who were told Thursday by contractors sent into the country to search for the missing students that their daughters had been located and were safe were told later that night that the information was wrong, and that their children had not been found.
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