Two children who were reported missing in Ohio in October have been found thousands of miles away in a hotel in Reykjavík, Iceland, authorities said. Newsweek reached out to the U.S. Marshals Service for comment via email on Wednesday.

The collaboration of effort in this case can’t be overstated. The ability to respond and recover these children abroad is an extremely difficult task.'

A pair of young siblings who were reported missing in Ohio in October were found this month thousands of miles away in Iceland, the U.S.

Aged 8 and 9, the children were taken by their mother from Ohio to the Nordic island nation after abandoning her home in Canton.

The multi-continental search began on Oct. 25 after the siblings, ages 8 and 9, were reported missing along with their 34-year-old mother.

A pair of siblings were found in a remote Icelandic village three months after they were reported missing in Ohio. In a statement, the U.S. Marshals Service in Northern Ohio, in conjunction with the Canton Police Department (CPD) and the U.