Scent Dogs Confirm Children Reached Abandoned House as Maranhão Search Expands

Overview

• The verification followed Anderson Kauan’s account, with canines indicating that Ágatha Isabelly, 6, and Allan Michael, 4, were at a “casa caída” in the São Raimundo area, prompting an expansion of the search perimeter.
• Underwater teams from the Maranhão Fire Department are conducting a quadrant-by-quadrant sweep of a nearby lake, a multi-day effort to check every point after 12 days without findings.
• Coordinators divided roughly 54 km² into 46 mapped quadrants and use a geolocation app to track teams across dense vegetation, irregular terrain, lakes and the Rio Mearim.
• Reinforcements include seven firefighters and two dogs from Pará and five firefighters with four dogs from Ceará, joining ICMBio, police, the Army, quilombola residents and volunteers.
• A Ceará tracking dog, Iara (also referred to as Yara), died en route with symptoms consistent with gastric torsion, and a tribute was held in the Santa Rosa community.