New clues emerged in the search of Loan Danilo Peña, the 5-year-old boy from Corrientes who has been missing for more than 72 hours. They found footprints that match the minor’s shoe 2.5 kilometers from the place where he disappeared. This Monday became a critical day for the child’s life, while the investigation maintains several points of mystery.
Walter Adrián Maciel, head of the 9 de Julio police station, confirmed that The next few hours will be decisive and that even more exhaustive searches will be carried out than those that were carried out until Sunday night. According to Diario Época, The search has already involved more than 1,200 troops of security forces, firefighters, paramedics and civilians.
That same media reported that the area where the footprints were found is called “troop trail”, where cattle and animals usually walk. It is very difficult for people to transit due to the difficulty of the terrain.
In total there were four footprints found in an area of ravines, but the drone used at nightwhich also has night vision and body heat detection technology, failed to detect any visible body.
The footprints were found about 2.5 kilometers from the orange grove where Loan was last seen and just over 4 kilometers from the house where he arrived on Thursday with his father to visit relatives in Paraje Algarrobal; a rural area very close to the town of 9 de Julio, located about 170 kilometers southeast of the capital of Corrientes.
How the search for Loan Danilo Peña continues in Corrientes
The hours of searching distress the community of Corrientes and the country. With the arrival of night, another rescue group entered to help with the search. of the child who has been missing for more than 72 hours.
Gendarmerie and the Rural Police of the province are carrying out search operations in the vicinity of the Las Lagunas ranch.
“We are working with the Sofia Alert “immediately since the case became known,” the authorities said. Food also began to be placed in different posts in case Loan returns on his own.
«We ask that you leave water and food where the footprints were found in case he is wandering,” they said. After 7 p.m., They began the search with special drones equipped with a thermal camera to detect movements in the dark.
Loan’s father spoke with hours remaining before a critical moment in the search
There is only this Monday night left for the Loan search be labeled “recovery” of a body, since, according to specialists, it is After 96 hours, the search for the living person stops.
On the eve of this event, the father of the Corrientes boy gave an interview on TN. «I have no explanation. Nobody passes here, there are no cars or trucks. When they come they say that’s how they do it, but with my son they never. Something is not closing me, He said minutes ago on television.
Regarding the three delayed adults, he said: “They came to lunch because they know my mother. They always come, but I come every 15 days or a month. I didn’t see when my son came out«.
He related that when he found out about the disappearance “we started searching and I came straight here – to the place of the search. They didn’t tell me anything. How are they going to get the creature there? Why don’t they ask for permission?” he asked himself several times.
