Huila. In compliance with the constitutional duty to ensure the well-being and rights of children, once known the disappearance of two minors in the municipality of Gigante, in the department of Huila, units of the Infantry Battalion No. 26 'Cacique Pigoanza' of the Ninth Brigade, began an exhaustive search to find them.
The military actions began last Saturday, when the children were reported missing in the lower part of the Cerro Pará, in the hamlet Algaborro in the Silvania district of the municipality of Gigante. Immediately an operation was launched.
Finally, the minors were found hiding in the upper part of the same sector, in conditions of dehydration and physical outrage. At the meeting with the soldiers, the children said they had been during the night in a coffee plantation, fleeing the home as a result of the interfamily mistreatment.
After providing them with food and hydration, the children were taken from the area and put into custody of the Childhood and Adolescence Police, an institution in charge of the procedure to restore the rights of the girl, 12, and the boy, 10.
Source: Ninth Brigade - National Army.
