FF.MM. They search for a rescue dog lost in the Colombian jungle

( Spanish) — Dozens of soldiers from the Colombian military are still on a mission to search for Wilson, the rescue dog who helped search for four indigenous children lost in the Amazon jungle, who were rescued 40 days after a plane crash.

The Brigadier General of the Colombian Military Forces, Herder Fernán Giraldo, told reporters in Bogotá on Tuesday that Operation Hope, with which the search and rescue operations of the four children were carried out for more than a month, did not It will end until Wilson’s whereabouts are found.

“Operation Hope continues. In accordance with the guidelines of the president and the Minister of National Defense, this operation culminated, God willing, with His help, until we managed to recover canine Wilson. At this moment we have in this area of ​​operation to these commandos of the military forces in the search and recovery of the canine,” Giraldo said on Tuesday.

Giraldo said his men would remain in the jungle for now trying to locate Wilson, at a news conference in Bogotá.

“We have around 70 commandos looking for him right now,” said the military.

For the military, Wilson was “the first soldier” in making contact with the children between the ages of 1 and 13, who were found over the weekend and were transferred to Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, to stabilize them.

Wilson, a Special Forces search dog, encountered the missing children in the jungle at some point, and “became their faithful friend and accompanied them on several occasions,” his grandfather said in an interview released by the military. this Monday.

“First the dog was with them. They left, the dog came back again and left, but then the dog disappeared,” said Narciso Mucutuy, the children’s grandfather, in a testimony released by the Colombian Ministry of Defense.

Wilson, a Belgian shepherd, went missing during search operations and was last seen on May 18, according to authorities. The children “were three or four days with Wilson and said they (found) him quite skinny,” Air Force General Pedro Sánchez previously said.

Suárez has also previously said that they would do everything possible not to leave any “man” behind.

Meanwhile, the reports from the authorities on the state of health of the children is that they are in good health, according to General Helder Fernán Giraldo said this Tuesday at a press conference.

— With information from Stefano Pozzebon of in Bogotá.