The parents of Natacha de Crombrugghe, the Belgian tourist who disappeared in Peru three months ago, offered Saturday a reward of 15,000 dollars for any information allowing them to find their daughter. The girl had disappeared while on her way to a hike in a canyon in the Andean highlands.
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“Reward of 15,000 dollars for anyone who finds Natacha de Crombrugghe or who helps us find her with information on her current whereabouts”says a poster posted on social media by the tourist’s parents.
Before offering the reward, the parents of the young woman, Eric and Sabine, put up posters with the slogan “Help us search” in several villages in the region of Arequipa, in the south of Peru.
Police and rescuers are continuing the search in the Colca River canyon near where the 28-year-old was last seen on January 24 after leaving a backpack in her bedroom. hotel in the village of Cabanaconde. The Colca Canyon, with a depth of 4,160 meters, attracts tourists, especially hikers and birdwatchers.
The girl’s parents and a brother arrived in Cabanaconde last week from Belgium. A law graduate from the Catholic University of Louvain, Natacha de Crombrugghe, who until recently worked for an insurance company in Belgium, according to her LinkedIn profile, last communicated with her parents in Brussels on January 23.
She regularly shared photos and comments about her trip to Peru on social media but suddenly stopped doing so. His last post on Facebook dates back to January 20. “Machu Picchu is not only beautiful, it is sublime”she wrote alongside a photo of herself smiling with the stone citadel as a backdrop.