Missing girl: no trace after 30 hours of research – Lombardy

The search has never stopped since Thursday 13 but Iuschra Gazi, a 12-year-old autistic foreigner seems to have disappeared. Dressed in a flowery yellow shirt and black pants, she disappeared after a curve along a trail in the woods of La Serle, in the province of Brescia. The trip to the plateau of Cariadeghe, a karst area of ​​516 hectares, has turned into a nightmare for the girl who had been entrusted to the Fobap operators, the psychodispositive badistance foundation based in Brescia and traveling with other disabled children. The Grest, as it is called the period with a recreational group, had begun for it nine days ago. The group consisted of seven operators, six volunteers and 14 minors with disabilities. All adults were heard by the Carabinieri of Brescia who coordinate the investigations.

"I saw her, she came to meet me but when the dog barked, she ran away," said a resident of Serle. The fear is that the child has fallen into one of the many chasms, holes in the ground, even at 40 meters deep. There are also 22 kilometers of caves accessible from seventy different points. "We have decided that the search will continue for 72 hours," explained the prefect of Brescia Annunziato Vardè at the end of a meeting with rescue workers looking for the child. "We are increasing the number of speleologists who will go from thirty to ten because there is a risk that the girl will end up in one of the many gorges or in the many holes that are present in this karst area. ", he added. Throughout last night and during the early hours of the day, an Air Force helicopter and some UAVs flew over the Serle Woods using cameras equipped with thermal sensors, but the child did not. Was not identified. "It's never happened that it's getting away," said father who's been involved in research since yesterday. Iuschra is the first of four children and next to her, a brother also suffers from autism. The man also recorded a message that rescuers aired during the search in the hope of hearing the voice of the 12-year-old parent. "It can be aggressive, but it can also close on itself, if it does not know people," says the neuropsychiatrist who has long followed the young stranger.