Search widens for missing women tourists

A WIDENING search, using helicopters and ground patrols is under way for two young Dutch women tourists who went missing Tuesday April in Boquete, Chiriqui, when they set off for a hike.

The girls Lisanne Froon, 22, from Amerfoort and Kris Kremers 21, from Utrecht, were in Panama to learn Spanish, and were staying with a local family. The language school they were attending said they were unlikely to have gotten lost as the path they were following went only one way up and down.

The search widened, Saturday April 5 in the province of Bocas del Toro and towards the border with Costa Rica.
Arturo Alvarado director of the National Civil Protection System (SINAPROC), reported that 30 operational personnel are involved.
Minister of Public Security, Jose Raul Mulino, said officials of the National Air Service have also joined the search for the tourists.
He said that if by Saturday night they have not found the Directorate of Judicial Investigation (DIJ) will be called in and it will become a police investigation.

HELP LINE

Meanwhile the families are desperate for news and have asked that anyone who has any information, however minor, to send an email to info@lisannekris.com.