Intelligence work and activation of search mechanisms led to the finding and recovery of the minors.
The report of the disappearance of two minors led the Military Gaula (Anti-Extortion and Anti-Kidnapping Group) of the Ninth Brigade and its CTI (Technical Investigations Corps) component to use their differential resources and launch a search operation that concluded with the return home not only of the two children reported missing, but in the same way of a third minor and an 18-year-old.
According to the information reported by the parents, the two minors, ages 12 and 14, left the Las Américas neighborhood, in Neiva, on August 16 and since then their whereabouts have been unknown. According to the preliminary report by the authorities, the minors apparently arrived in the municipality of Rivera where they joined the 15- and 18-year-olds and, after traveling, they arrived in Soacha, Cundinamarca, where they apparently carried out activities of begging, allegedly been threatened with death by homeless individuals.
Again, traveling clandestinely, in their attempt to return to Huila, they were victims of an attempted kidnapping by illegal armed structures, but they escaped and took refuge in a restaurant on the road that connects Natagaima with Aipe.
After receiving food and the support of the community, they were sent by the military unit that brought them back to Huila and handed them to the Children and Adolescents Police for the restoration of their rights.
Source: Press - Fifth Division of the National Army
