Special forces soldiers support the search for children

The Colombian authorities sent this Friday to 50 special forces soldiers to support the search for four minors who disappeared after the plane crash that took place on May 1 in the jungle in the south of the country, in which three adults died.

The Military forces They said in a statement that the commandos left the department of Antioquia (northwest) for San José del Guaviare, the capital of the department of Guaviare (south), where the unitary command post (PMU) that works in the search for children meets.

“These commandos will be deployed today to support the search for four minors who have been missing since May 1,” the armed forces said.

RESEARCH WORK

Airplane Cessna 206managed by the company Avianline Charter’s and in which there were seven people, disappeared from the radar on May 1.

Last Monday, the plane, which reportedly suffered engine failure while flying between Araracuara, a remote town located on the border between the departments of Caquetá and Amazonas, and San José del Guaviare, was in a rural area of ​​the village Palma Rosa in the municipality of Solano (Caquetá) and three of its tenants died.

Four minors have yet to be located: Lesly Mucutuy, 13 years; Soleiny Mucutuy, 9; Tien Noriel Ronoque Mucutuy, 4, and Cristin Neriman Ranoque Mucutuy, 11 monthswhich the rescuers believe are in the jungle and are looking for help.

The place where the accident happened is a dense and rainy area, which complicates the search, which is carried out by more than 100 members of the Armed Forcestogether with three dogs trained for search and tracking, as well as indigenous people from the region, all with the support of a helicopter.

In this regard, the Armed Forces detailed this Friday that last night and in the early morning hours today, uniformed officers from helicopters carried out “public address work to guide minors”, so that “they would know that the search has not stopped”. .

“Operation Nada is a humanitarian effort by the Armed Forces and institutions that seeks to locate and save these children,” the information adds.

FINDING OF COMPETENT FINDINGS

This week Military and civil aeronautics (Aerocivil) They found a “shelter made improvised from sticks and branches”, where they found “scissors and some kind of ‘bows’ with which women usually hold their hair”, and even pieces of fruit that children could allegedly eat.

Previously, in another place, a dog that was part of the search found a bottle, which is assumed to have been used to feed the baby. The plane was found upside down, indicating that the crew may have tried to land on giant trees with huge roots in an emergency.

They also found new tracks near the stream, which could be the tracks of the four minors.