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It was located this morning by the Air Service of the Benemérita
From the place where it has been located, with abundant vegetation and difficult access by land, has been transferred in the Corps helicopter to Los Arcos hospital
Fluid collaboration between Civil Protection, Local Police, Fire and Civil Guard
The Civil Guard of the Region of Murcia has located and rescued an elderly person who was missing since last Tuesday.
The missing, 89 years old and resident of Los Alcázares, has been located by the helicopter crew of the Benemérita in a place with high vegetation and difficult access, located in the municipality of Cartagena near the town of El Carmolí.
Last Tuesday, December 13, a neighbor of Los Alcázares went out for a walk early in the morning.
Because he did not return the relatives went out in search of him.
The next morning, one of the family members alerted the Civil Guard of the disappearance of this 89-year-old man and activated the protocol provided for these cases.
Initially all possible data on the routines of the disappeared were collected and the search devices were established in collaboration with Civil Protection, Local Police and Firefighters, the latter on the possibility that the wanted person could have fallen to one of the existing wells in The search area.
The search device consisted of beating both on foot and with vehicles by citizen security personnel, sometimes aided by a person trained in search of people and their guide agent.
Due to the terrain's terrain, the high vegetation of some areas and the advanced age of the disappeared, the device was added the Air Service of the Benemérita with a helicopter and its crew pilots and security personnel.
About 10.25 h.
Of this morning, while the air device was tracking an area near the Carmolí, municipality of Cartagena, the agents who were in the helicopter have seen a person in a field with abundant vegetation that has caught their attention.
In the face of suspicions that he may correspond with the missing person and due to the impossibility of access by ground vehicles, the helicopter has landed two civil guards at the scene.
These agents have verified that it was the old man wanted, they have helped him immediately and they have moved him urgently in the own helicopter to the hospital Los Arcos to be attended by medical personnel.
Three nights out in the open
Although the rescued person has been missing for three days, he was in good health, although he showed signs of hypothermia due to the humidity of the environment and the time spent in the open.
The search device has been developed with a fluid coordination between the Civil Guard with citizen security patrols, agents with trained dogs in search of people and the Air Service with the helicopter and its crew, Civil Protection of Los Alcázares and Cartagena and Local Police And Firemen of Cartagena.
Source: Ministerio del Interior
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