“God willing, everything will be fine,” expressed the hopeful older brother of Loan Peña, the five-year-old boy who disappeared on Thursday afternoon when he left his grandmother’s house located in Algarrobal, a small area in the town. on 9 de Julio, a few kilometers from the provincial capital of Corrientes, in search of oranges and never returned.
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Given the urgency, during the afternoon of this Friday the Justice issued the Sofia Alert to promote the search for the minor. This Saturday, in dialogue with local radio Sudamericana, Mariano Peña, brother of the minor, gave more details of the search that is being carried out in the area with provincial resources, teams from the gendarmerie and the Prefecture with the help of drones, horses and dogs. As reported by Leticia Risco, coordinator of the Federal System for Searching for Missing Persons (Sifebu), in dialogue with LA NACION.
I believe he is safe and sound. My little brother is very strong
For its part, the local newspaper Epoch, reported that Mariano expressed: “We are not ruling out anything, but I believe he is safe and sound. “My little brother is very strong.” Although, according to reports, the young man acknowledged: “It’s all very strange. Loan was very lively, he was not going to give himself up easily, he talks a lot. There is something strange here.”
According to Risco, the place where Loan disappeared is an “extremely extensive” rural area. In that sense he described: “We are talking about open fields, which makes the search difficult. We have fields of grass one meter high and we must take into account that the child is about 90 centimeters tall, he is smaller than the grasslands, so the search place is difficult.
This Thursday, the Ministry of National Security described the child’s physical appearance so that anyone with relevant information can report it to line 134.
“Loan is a boy with a dark complexion, thin, with brown eyes and short dark brown hair.” “At the time of his disappearance, he was wearing a black T-shirt with pink letters that said ‘Messi’, long black pants and green sneakers. The minor measures approximately 80 centimeters and has a scar located in the crown of his head,” they detailed.
Sofia alert and an intense search
“24 hours have passed since we became aware of the case and we contacted Sifebu with the prosecutor’s office that is acting to make the case available to us. We told Dr. Juan Carlos Castillo about the tools we had and from what we discussed we understood that the case met the criteria for activating Sofia Alert,” explained the Sifebu coordinator.
In this sense, the official indicated: “A Sofia alert is an atypical case, it is a case for extreme cases, where there is an imminent risk. This is the fifth time it has been activated since the program was created in 2018. It is always cases where boys or girls, whether for different reasons, which could be an abduction, because we know that there was an abduction, or because there is simply no news and it is presumed that they are lost, because at five years old, a boy or “A girl does not have the conditions to defend herself or to make herself understood.”
“So it is due to the characteristics and the case as told to us by the prosecutor’s office that it was jointly decided to activate the Sofia alert, which is carried out through the National Communications Entity (Enacom). It is a massive activation that occurs through the media, or social networks. The different devices they have, both Facebook and Instagram, will receive an alert about this, about the activation of the program, within a 150-kilometer radius,” Risco explained.
Regarding the intense search, the Sifebu coordinator explained: “We are traveling tomorrow to be present at the scene and participate in what is the situation room, what is the cooperative emergency command, together with the provincial authorities, and a reinforcement because, of course, the provincial teams are exhausted, especially the dogs because they have been working intensely for more than 24 hours.”
*GDA Editorial. The Nation – Argentina
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