Colombian armed forces have spent more than two weeks searching for survivors of a plane crash in the Amazon jungle, even broadcasting a message recorded by the grandmother of four children onboard, telling them to stay in place.
There appeared to be a breakthrough on Wednesday, when Colombia's President Gustavo Petro tweeted that the four children - aged 13, nine, four and 11-months old - were found alive. But he later deleted the tweet, saying Thursday that information given to him by the country's child welfare agency had not been confirmed.
She added that she was "very confident" four children have been found alive more than two weeks after their plane crashed in the Amazon jungle - but was awaiting further proof. "The information I have is that they are fine, we also understand they had very hard days, but these are kids who moved around the area, and they seemed ok," she added.
"What we have at this moment is the arrival of three confirmed adult bodies that we are looking at after carrying out a difficult evacuation; they had to be raised by helicopters," he told reporters in San José del Guaviare. The search intensified on Thursday, evening, according to the Civil Aviation Authority, following the discovery of "new findings that could give clues to whereabouts."
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