On Thursday, Mr. Petro clarified the situation, matching the Colombian military’s report that it had not made contact with the children and could not corroborate their whereabouts or survival.
has officially retracted an announcement he made declaring that four missing siblings, purported survivors of a May 1 plane crash, had been found.
The children’s mother, Magdalena Valencia, was killed in the crash, as was pilot Hernando Murcia and passenger Herman Hernandez. An initial tweet suggesting that the Mucutuy siblings — Lesly, a 13-year-old girl, and boys Soleiny, 9, Tien, 4, and Cristin, 11 months — had been found was put out on Mr. Petro’s Twitter account Wednesday evening. That tweet was deleted later.clarified the situation, matching the Colombian military’s report that it had not made contact with the children and could not corroborate their whereabouts or survival.
“I have decided to delete the tweet because the information provided by the [Colombian Institute of Family Welfare] could not be confirmed. I’m sorry about what happened. The Military Forces and the indigenous communities will continue in their tireless search to give the country the news it is waiting for,” Mr.
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