Body found in search for missing American Airlines flight attendant in Colombia: mayor

A mayor inColombiaannounced that a corpse had been discovered and was likely that of an American citizen who had gone missing. 

Eric Fernando Gutierrez Molina, a 32-year-old American Airlines flight attendant from Texas, had gone missing while in the foreign country, according to reports.

“Since last Sunday, we have been searching for Eric Gutiérrez, a U.S.citizen who is missing,” Medellín Mayor Federico Gutiérrez noted in apostFriday on X, according to a translation from Spanish.

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“Unfortunately, a lifeless body has just been found between the municipality of Jericó and Puente Iglesias,” he noted.

“There is a very high probability that it is this person.”

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Eric Fernando Gutierrez Molina(CDColExt/X)

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“Our thoughts and support are with his family, loved ones and colleagues during this difficult time, and we are doing all we can to assist Colombianlaw enforcementin its investigation.”

�s Alexandra Koch contributed to this report