The community of Santiago Oeste remains on edge following the disappearance of Francisco F\u00e9lix Familia, a 44-year-old man whose whereabouts have been a mystery since last Monday night. The citizen, a resident of the La Pi\u00f1a sector, was last seen in the vicinity of the Ulises Francisco Espaillat (UFE) irrigation canal, located in the La Emboscada area.<\/p>\n\n
According to details provided by those close to him, F\u00e9lix Familia headed to the canal after finishing his workday at a local free trade zone, a practice he performed occasionally. His brother, Mart\u00edn Familia, reported that the man’s trail was lost at approximately 7:00 p.m.<\/p>\n\n
The family’s anguish intensified upon finding various personal belongings on the canal bank, including their clothing and vehicle keys. Although there is a circulating version that they may have slipped and fallen into the water, the authorities have not yet confirmed this hypothesis.<\/p>\n\n\n
We are desperate. We don’t know if he is in the canal or where he might be. It is an extremely strange and worrying situation for all of us.<\/p>\nMart\u00edn Familia, brother of the missing person.<\/cite>\n\n\n Friends and family have expressed their bewilderment at the lack of clear leads. Ricardo Contreras, a close friend of Francisco, described him as a calm and healthy person, which makes his disappearance even more incomprehensible. For her part, Marina Marmolejos, a close friend, has requested that relief agencies intensify search efforts within and around the irrigation structure.<\/p>\n\n\n So far, the search efforts continue without positive results. The family members remain hopeful of getting answers soon and have reiterated their call to the authorities to exhaust all necessary resources to locate Francisco F\u00e9lix Familia and determine precisely what happened in said canal.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Desperate search for missing man in Santiago Oeste irrigation canal The community of Santiago Oeste remains on edge following the disappearance of Francisco F\u00e9lix Familia, a 44-year-old man whose whereabouts have been a mystery since last Monday night. The citizen, a resident of the La Pi\u00f1a sector, was last seen in the vicinity of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":168384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12809],"tags":[14394,13132,2553,13277],"class_list":{"0":"post-168383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-channel","9":"tag-missing","10":"tag-santiago","11":"tag-search"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Call to the authorities<\/h3>\n\n