Venezuelan authorities are looking for more than 35 people who were in the mountains of La Grita, 870 kilometers southwest of Caracas, on August 22 to participate in a religious ritual.
Today we are talking about 35 to 40 people, of different ages, including an 8-day-old baby, who have been on a religious ‘retreat’ for four days and have been for more than 15 days,” said the director of Civil Protection for the state Tachira to journalists.
Yesnardo Canal said authorities had carried out several failed raids after being tipped off.
In the next few hours, drones will be used to reinforce ground searches. in mountain and jungle areas, where some residents said they had seen a group of people, he said.
On the other hand, the head of Citizen Security and director of the Táchira Police, Wilman Rivera, explained to the journalists that some neighboring places were urged by these people to take shelter in the mountains because the “end of the world” was approaching.
They said that the Virgin Mary had appeared to one of them and told them to go to a specific place to save themselves because the world was going to end,” said Rivera.
However, photos of some of the missing people were posted on social media, with the warning that they were being “deceived and manipulated by a lady pretending to be the leader” of a “charismatic renewal group”.
Source: Observadora
