Esmeralda Pereyra López was last seen on Wednesday around noon in front of her house.
The authorities in Córdoba activated the Sofia Alert for the disappearance of Esmeralda Pereyra López, two years and eight months old, in Cosquín.
The girl is a native of the San José Obrero neighborhood.
In the last few hours, a key testimony was released: that of her aunt, who assured that the girl did not go astray on her own and maintained that she was taken by
someone.“They took her from the front of my house,” said Valeria, the little girl's aunt and her mother's sister.
Security forces and specialized teams deploy intensive raking in the Jacinto Piedra Street area
.
Volunteer firefighters from different barracks, together with police personnel, work on site. The girl's relatives noticed her absence for the past few hours.
The alert was triggered when the girl's grandfather arrived at the family home and asked for his granddaughter. At that time they noticed that the girl was gone
.
Fire personnel from Cosquín, Valle Hermoso, La Falda, Santa María and other nearby locations participate in the raking, as well as special units that work at the so-called “ground zero”, where the two-year-old girl was last seen
.The operation is supervised by the highest authorities of the force, headed by the Deputy Chief of Police of the Interior Headquarters, General Commissioner Iván Rey, and the general director of Departmental North, Commissioner General Víctor Quevedo.
