The province of Corrientes is shocked this weekend by the disappearance of Loan Danilo Peña, a 5-year-old boy about whom nothing has been known since Thursdaywhen he allegedly went out to look for oranges in a mountain area with other members of his family.
To determine his whereabouts, the Ministry of National Security activated, in coordination with the Federal Search System for Missing and Lost Persons (SIFEBU), the Sofia Alert program, applicable in this type of case.
According to information collected by local media, The little boy was last seen in the Algarrobal areanear the town of 9 de Julio and the provincial capital of Corrientes.
He had left his grandmother’s house to look for oranges in the mountains adjacent to that house, after lunch. However, he never returned and Since then he has been intensely searched, with the support of the Corrientes Police and the community in general.
Loan is a thin, dark-skinned boy 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. It measures approximately 80 centimeters and has a scar located on the crown of its head..
Official sources cited by Infobae indicated that until this Saturday there was no news about the little onewhich is why the Ministry of National Security decided to activate a Sofia Alert.
Desperate search for a 5-year-old boy in Corrientes: the disappearance
loan He went to collect fruits with three other minors and three adultsafter receiving permission from his father, since the elders in charge were family acquaintances.
“We don’t know what happened. All you have to do is search house by house., in case someone saw him and took him away. He did not know these roads, he is very small,” said María, the child’s mother, in statements to the local media Época.
The woman reported that the group had already gone about 2 kilometers from Loan’s grandmother’s house when they noticed his absence and began looking for him for about 2 hours, before notifying the Police. The boy is the youngest of eight siblings.
In it About 200 police officers are working on the search operation, who search a radius of 8 kilometers, reported the chief commissioner of the Goya Regional Unit, Roque Báez. The officer highlighted that it is an inhospitable area of mountains and lagoons, where they also work with dogs, horses and drones to try to find Loan.
It was during one of those raids that they found about 3 kilometers from the boy’s grandmother’s house a pair of slippers that would be the ones he was wearing at the time of his disappearance.
The authorities also They established the preventive delay of the three adults who accompanied him and they ordered a search of a house located on National Route 123, although for now the connection with the case has not been reported.
Desperate search for a 5-year-old boy in Corrientes: what is the Sofia Alert
According to the national security portfolio on its website, the Sofia Alert This is a rapid emergency system developed to coordinate the immediate search and location of missing girls, boys and adolescents whose lives are considered to be at “Imminent High Risk.”
It necessarily implies coordinated work between public and private sector entities, the media and civil society.
