Four Colombian children have been found alive in the Amazon, more than five weeks after the plane they were travelling in crashed in the jungle. The children managed to survive by building improvised shelters and foraging for fruit. FULL STORY: 9News
"A joy for the whole country! The four children who were lost 40 days ago in the Colombian jungle were found alive," Petro tweeted on Friday, attaching a image that seems to show search crews treating the children in a forest clearing.
Their mother, Magdalena Mucutuy Valencia, was killed in the crash along with two other adult passengers: pilot Hernando Murcia Morales and Yarupari indigenous leader Herman Mendoza Hernández. "They all added a little effort so that this Operation Hope could be successful, and we can hope the kids will emerge alive and stronger than before. We have been hoping together with the strength of our ancestors, and our strength prevailed," he said."We never stopped looking for them until the miracle came," the Colombian Defence Ministry tweeted.
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