BOGOTA: Six-year-old tracker dog Wilson, who went missing during the ultimately successful, weeks-long search for four missing Indigenous children in the Colombian Amazon, is now the
, is now the target of a rescue mission himself.
"The search is not over," the army insisted in a statement issued after the children were located last Friday , adding more than 70 soldiers remain deployed in the dense jungle to find the Belgian Shepherd.Lara, a colleague told the El Espectador newspaper,"does not want to leave until he finds his dog".
Then, two weeks ago,"due to the complexity of the terrain, humidity and adverse weather conditions" Wilson must have become"disoriented" and disappeared, the military said in a statement.After his human comrades lost sight of Wilson, however, evidence emerged that he may have been the first to find the children: A dog's footprints were spotted near those of the children shortly before the rescue team got to them.
Lesly"told us ... of a dog that they had lost, that they didn't know where it went, that it had accompanied them for a while", she recounted.The Colombian army has trained more than 17,000 dogs during decades of internal conflict in specialisations including explosives detection, demining and search and rescue.
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