08/23/2021 3:35 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 08/23/2021 3:35 PM
The residents of Bariloche are shocked after the
disappearance
of a woman, her 18-year-old son and two other men who traveled on August 21 to
different places in the south
of Río Negro to distribute clothes, footwear, bales of grass and even toys for Children's Day.
They are
Alicia Magdalena Ocampo (41), her son Juan Ignacio Gallardo (18), Hugo Trejo (52) and Adolfo Pignon (47)
, who are intensely wanted by the Police and Firefighters, while the South of the country is hit by a heavy snowstorm that left routes cut off and dozens of stranded.
The four neighbors left in a red Ford Ranger and a white Toyota Hilux on Saturday August 21 at 7 and so far
nothing is known about them
.
Nor if they managed to reach their destination.
Hugo Trejo (52), Juan Ignacio Gallardo (18), Alicia Ocampo (41) and Adolfo Pignon (47) disappeared in Río Negro.
Photos.
Alicia's sister told on her Facebook that a helicopter
flew over the area for two hours
and did not find
no sign of the truck;
and that later two planes took off, while the ground search continues.
The four traveled to
deliver toys for Children's Day
in Las Bayas, Río Chico and Fitamiche, in the south of Río Negro.
Also shoes, clothes and bales of grass.
Precisely, in a Facebook post by Alicia on August 18, Hugo tells in a video that a truck broke down and asked for help to get a 4x4 "because
the road is too ugly
."
The message of one of the disappeared in Río Negro
Hugo Trejo, before traveling to distribute toys for Children's Day, asked for help because they had had problems with the truck.
Nothing is known of the four travelers since August 21.
Alicia, for her part, told enthusiastically: "Amig @ S, I'm in the
solidarity crusade
, together with Hugo Trejo. We need people who want to join in and, of course, collaboration with whoever they can and want."
And he continues: "As always, I am grateful to life and to all of you, because I continue to believe that with love a better world is built and you
always have to give a hand
to whoever needs the most ... Your grain of sand adds up! Thank you , thank you, thank you total ".
The search
The head of Splif Bariloche, Orlando Báez, said on
FM 93.7
that on Sunday at
7:00 p.m. he
received "the request, through Civil Protection, to direct personnel to
search for two families
who mobilized in two vehicles to visit the South line and to this day they have not returned home. "
The routes of the mountain range and the main avenues of Bariloche are covered with snow.
Photo: RÍO NEGRO
According to Báez, Juan Ignacio's father "maintained contact with his son until the boy
had no signal or his cell phone was turned off
, around 3 pm yesterday (Sunday)."
"For now,
they are not found on the route
" said the police chief and said that "there is snow on the South Line, although it is possible to travel, it is not easy and we do not know if the neighbors are prepared to be more than a day , that's what
worries
us the most
. "
"In principle we are going to search the route to rule out that they are stranded due to a mechanical damage, then
we will begin to enter the fields,
" explained Báez and said that on Sunday they sent four brigades and that this Monday they were also going to send.
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