The search is now focusing on areas of accumulated water where visibility is still difficult.
The chances of finding alive the second hiker who disappeared in the Torrent de Pareis, in the town of Escorca (Majorca), are diminishing with each passing hour, even though the rescue forces “they do not lose hope”.
This is how representatives of the Civil Guard answered questions from the media at the command post of the La Calobra rescue operation, regretting that due to the experience of similar cases find alive to the missing person in these circumstances It’s “complicated”.
For their part, the Mallorca firefighters explained that the search was now focusing on the areas with accumulated water, warning, however, of the difficulty of the work because the water continues to flow and is cloudy and carries a lot of earth, making visibility difficult. In addition, due to the orography of the terrain, communications between the troops are also difficult.
From the first hour of this Thursday, the members of the Special Underwater Activities Group (GEAS) of the Civil Guard joined the search tasks for the hiker who disappeared in the Torrent de Pareis, in the town of Escorca (Mallorca).
The divers thus join the Mountain Rescue and Intervention Group (GREIM) of the Army Institute in search tasks.
The troops comb the entire torrent from one end to the other. in an effort to find the second missing person, after the lifeless body of the other missing hiker was found on Wednesday.
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