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

(CNN Spanish) — Dozens of soldiers from the Colombian military are still searching for Wilson, a rescue dog who helped search for four missing indigenous children in the Amazon jungle that was rescued 40 days after a plane crash.

Brigadier General Herder Bernan Giraldo of the Colombian Armed Forces told reporters in Bogotá on Tuesday that Operation Hope, the search and rescue operation for the four children that has been underway for more than a month, will not end until Wilson. Location found.

“Operation Hope continues. In line with the directives of the President and the Minister of National Security, this operation has culminated, God willing, with His help, until we can rescue dog Wilson. We are in this area at this time. Operation to these commandos of the military forces in search and rescue of the dog,” he said. Giraldo said Tuesday.

At a news conference in Bogotá, Giraldo said his men would remain in the jungle to try to find Wilson.

“At present around 70 commandos are searching for him,” the army said.

For the army, there was Wilson “The First Soldier” After making contact with the children, between the ages of 1 and 13, they were found over the weekend and taken to Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, to stabilize them.

Wilson, a Special Forces search dog, encountered the missing children in the woods at one point and “became their faithful friend, accompanying them on many occasions,” his grandfather said in an interview released by the military.

“At first the dog was with them. They left, the dog came back and left, but the dog disappeared,” said the children’s grandfather, Narciso Mukutuy, in testimony released by the Colombian Defense Ministry.

Wilson, a Belgian shepherd, went missing during the search operation and was last seen on May 18, authorities said. The children “were with Wilson for three or four days and they found him very thin,” Air Force Gen. Pedro Sanchez said earlier.

Suarez has previously said he will do everything possible to spare any “man”.

Meanwhile, General Helder Bernan Giraldo told a press conference that according to the authorities’ report on the children’s health, they are in good health.

— With information from CNN’s Stefano Pozzebon in Bogotá.