50 soldiers joined the search for four children

Colombian authorities sent 50 special forces soldiers as support the search for four missing children after the plane crash it happened on May 1 in the jungle in the south of the country, in which three adults died.

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

He Cessna 206 aircraft operated by Avianline Charter 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, It was located in the rural area of ​​the hamlet of Palma Rosa in the municipality of Solano (Caquetá) with three of its deceased tenants.

Then it remains to locate four minors: Lesly Mucutuy, 13 years; Soleiny Mucutuy, 9; They have Noriel Ronoque Mucutuy, 4, and Cristin Neriman Ronoque Mucutuy, 11 months, who rescuers believe are in the jungle and are seeking help.

The place where the accident happened is a dense and rainy area that makes the search difficult carried out by more than 100 members of the Armed Forces, together with three dogs trained for search and tracking, as well as the indigenous population of the region, all with the support of helicopters.

In this sense, the Armed Forces have detailed it From Thursday to Friday, uniformed police officers from helicopters conducted “juvenile diversion business”to “know that the search has not ended”.

“The Operation Hope It is a humanitarian effort by the Armed Forces and institutions that seeks to locate and rescue these children,” the information adds.

This week, army and civil aeronautics (Aerocivil) found a “shelter built improvised from sticks and branches”where some “scissors and some kind of ‘bows’ with which women usually hold their hair” were found, as well as pieces of fruit that could allegedly be eaten by children.

Before, in another place, the dog that is part of the search found the bottlewhich is assumed to have been used to feed the baby.

The plane was found upside downindicating that the crew may have tried to crash land on gigantic trees with huge roots.