They use searchlights and loudspeakers to search for lost children

Powerful searchlights and messages broadcast over a ground loudspeaker are two new strategies being implemented by special forces searching among natives for four brothers lost since May 1 after a plane crash in southern Colombia.

“With these visual and auditory guides, which were placed at strategic points, it was intended that the juveniles would observe and listen for these lights and sounds in the dark of night so that they could reach the troops or give some kind of signal that allows them to be located,” he reported. is the Command of the Armed Forces.

Lesly Mukutuy, 11 years; Soleiny Mukutuy, 9 years old; Tien Noriel Ronoque Mukutuy, 4, and baby Cristin Neruman, who past 26 turned one year old, they were lost for 29 days in the vast virgin jungle of southern Colombia.

Search and rescue agencies have already recovered the bodies, which were in the crashed plane, of the children’s mother, Magdalena Mukutuy; indigenous leader Hermán Mendoza and Cessna 206 pilot Hernando Murcia.

The information says that this new strategy that the military forces will have in the search zone on the border between the departments of Caquetá and Guaviare will be carried out during the day and night in order for the four “little brothers to observe or listen and thus give some signal to reach them or can approach the points on which the troops are located”.

These advisors visual and auditory they arrived at the work sites by military helicopters and were put into operation with the help of power plants.

The lights, sound booths and ground sound equipment will be seen and heard from a distance of a thousand meters, and because of their power they can be seen and heard in the dense jungle where the children are.

120 members of special forces and almost 80 natives continue the search, following the trail of the four Uitoto minors.

They hold out hope that they will be found alive after finding several children’s items such as bottles and nappies, and a shelter located 3600 meters from the place in which the plane crashed due to an alleged engine failure.