The Army, the Gendarmerie and the Federal Police joined the search operation for Loan, the 5-year-old boy who He has been missing in Corrientes for three days. “We are working on the search, but so far we cannot find it,” he said in conversation with TN the chief of the provincial police. For this reason, they insist that the next few hours are key.
The local government reported this Sunday that “the more than 300 members of the Corrientes Police, the COE and the firefighters were joined by members of the Argentine Army, the Gendarmerie and the Argentine Federal Police with their group of dogs, “to the search and search tasks to find the whereabouts of the Loan child.”
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In the last hours, the authorities intensified the night search in the Algarrobal area, in the rural area of the 9 de Julio municipality, to be able to find the whereabouts of the minor.
The search intensifies at night with searches and searches by different areas of the Police and other people who are collaborating. (Photo: TN)
The Ministry of National Security implemented the Sofia alert to spread your image and find it. In accordance with this, the Search Coordinator for Missing Persons of the Ministry of National Security, Leticia Risco, stated to TN that the alert lasts 24 hours and can be extended for another 24 hours.
From the three suspects to the shoe: the clues that investigators follow
While the search for the baby continues, the provincial police delayed three peoplewhich would be the last people who would have seen Loan before his disappearance, according to reports Argentine News.
“Three people were detained, the last ones to see the boy“, explained the Minister of Security of Corrientes, Buenaventura Duarte, in dialogue with The Coastand indicated that “they were all at a lunch for Saint Anthony’s Day.”
The head of the Corrientes Security portfolio explained that the three delayed are “Loan’s uncle, a man and a woman who are a couple who are friends of the latter”. In turn, he detailed that these people did not usually frequent the house of the child’s grandmotherthe place where his relatives last saw him before he went out with his cousins to look for oranges.
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Meanwhile, the mystery grows over the trail of Loan’s shoe, which was found in the middle of a very muddy area. In the last hours, an expert report was carried out.
Sources close to the investigation indicated that Two or three footprints were detected that could be those of boys.. Furthermore, another detail that caught attention was the position in which they found the shoe, since it was on the surface of the mud and Investigators believe he would not have passed by there.
Likewise, another important fact is that this Saturday a plane flew over the area where the procedure is carried out and HE alerted rescuers about the presence of pumas.
