2023-06-10 07:40:28
Colombian Army releases photos of children found in the jungle
Four children who survived a plane crash in Colombia were found in the Amazon jungle weeks following the crash.
Colombia’s president said “the whole country rejoices” with the rescue of the 13-year-old, nine-year-old, four-year-old and one-year-old siblings.
The children’s mother and two pilots were killed when a light plane crashed in the jungle on May 1 last month.
A large-scale rescue operation involving dozens of soldiers and local residents was carried out to find the missing people.
President Gustavo Petro said it was a “magical day” for finding the children. He added, “They were alone, and on their own they achieved an example of complete survival that will go down in history.”
“These children are today’s children of peace and the children of Colombia,” he said.
President Petro released photos of soldiers and members of the indigenous community looking following a brother and sister who had been missing for 40 days.
The Colombian president also said that the children were being treated and that the children’s grandfather was delighted that “Mother Jungle has returned them.”
The children were flown to the capital, Bogota, where ambulances were taken to hospitals for further treatment.
The children were transported by plane to Bogota, the Colombian capital, and from Bogota to the hospital by ambulance for further treatment.
Prior to the crash, the Cessna 206 aircraft carrying the children and their mother was on a May Day distress call with engine failure en route from Araracuara to San José del Guaviare in the province of Amazonas.
The Colombian Army found the bodies of three adults at the crash site, but the children appear to have escaped the wreckage and wandered into the rainforest seeking help.
An extensive search was launched and rescuers retrieved items the children had left over the past month, including water bottles, scissors, hair ties and makeshift shelters.
Small footprints were also found, leading the search team to believe that the children were still alive in the rainforest, which is home to jaguars, snakes and other predators.
The children are from the Huito Aboriginal people, who hoped that the children would increase their chances of fruit and jungle survival.
Aboriginal people participated in the search, and the helicopter broadcast a message from the children’s grandmother recorded in Huitoto language, asking them not to move so that they might be easily found.
Colombia’s president came under fire last month when he falsely announced that the children had been found on his Twitter account.
He deleted the tweet containing the misleading announcement the following day, saying that the information provided to his office by Colombia’s Child Welfare Agency might not be corroborated.
Soldiers take pictures with rescued children
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