Authorities in the Dominican Republic are searching for five Spanish firefighters who disappeared Thursday on a hill in the municipality of La Cienegas, in the southwestern province of Barahona, while canyoning.
The government obtained on Friday morning “notification” of the disappearance of those other five people and “since that moment they have been running in search of them,” according to the regional director of the Civil Defense of the southwest of the Dominican Republic, Carlos Confidante, who is part of the rescue efforts.
Although no names have been released, all of the missing have been identified. The Spaniards, three men and two women, all firefighters from Seville, arrived in the Dominican Republic on November 14 to practice canyoning, explained their compatriot Eduardo Gómez, a member of the organization team of friends who are regulars in the sport.
The Spaniards disappeared when they were separated from Gómez, who had arrived in this Caribbean country a few days before.
Gomez has tried it with his teammates, but, he said, the phone policy in the domain is bad.
The first data on the disappearance of the organization was provided in Santo Domingo by a press conference of emergency organizations to give the main points of the measures taken due to the rains expected for this weekend, specifically in the southwest of the country, due to to tropical storms. potential. cyclone, located 400 kilometers from the capital of Jamaica.
The head of operations of the Dominican Civil Defense, Delfin Antonio Rodriguez, told the assembly that members of the Tourist Police and the National Army were also searching for the foreigners.