16 Oct. 2023 01:57 – Updated Oct 16 2023 01:58
A large search operation is underway overnight until Monday for a seven-year-old boy who got away from his family while hunting in Lindesnes municipality on Sunday afternoon.
– The plan is to hold on until we find him. We will continue through the night, says operations manager Eyvind Formo at the Agder police district to NTB at 1.30 a.m. on Monday.
It was then 12 hours since the boy came away from his family in a wooded area near Heddan, north-west of Vigeland in Lindesnes.
– The boy was hunting with his family, and then they lost contact with him at 1:30 p.m., says incident leader Jørgen Andersen in the Agder police district to Lindesnes Newspaper.
– The boy must have gone ahead and was on his way from one post to another when he disappeared. There is demanding terrain, lots of forest and dense vegetation in the area, Andersen adds The friend of the fatherland.
Large resources participate in the search
Helicopters, drones, dogs and 130 crews are participating in the search for the seven-year-old.
The boy must have been gone for half an hour when the police were contacted. At 15.15 the first police patrol arrived in Heddan.
Over the course of Sunday evening, more and more resources were deployed in the search operation, including a SAR Queen rescue helicopter from Sola, a police helicopter and eleven crew members from Norwegian Rescue Dogs in addition to police dogs and volunteers from the Red Cross.
The family is very distraught
In addition to demanding terrain, lots of forest and dense vegetation, it is completely dark in the area on the night of Monday. It makes an already demanding situation even more difficult.
According to Yr.no it has been reported to drop to four degrees in the area on the night of Monday.
– There is a family that is very distraught here now, so we are doing everything we can to find the boy, said police task leader Jørgen Andersen late on Sunday evening.
The police state that the missing boy has local origins.
The family is very distraught
The main rescue center Southern Norway informs NTB that a search is underway at full strength – with a lot of crews and helicopter resources.
– Local rescue center in Agder coordinates the tactical. We are now working on briefing the crew of the rescue helicopter from Rygge, which will replace the machine from Sola, said rescue manager Kjetil Hagen on Sunday evening.
Formo encourages anyone who sees or hears anything in the area to report it to the police.
2023-10-15 21:54:00
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