A baby and children aged four, nine and 13 were found alive more than a month after their plane crashed the Colombian Amazon rainforest.
BOGOTA: For 40 days after their plane crashed, four Indigenous children were lost in the Colombian Amazon rainforest.
On board were the pilot, an Indigenous leader of the Huitoto community, as well as Magdalena Mucutui Valencia and her four children - aged 13, nine, four and 11 months. A photograph share by Colombia's armed forces on May 19, 2023, shows the crashed plane in the Amazon rainforest. Between May 15 and 16, soldiers found the bodies of the pilot and the two adults in the Caqueta area. The plane was stuck vertically in thick vegetation, with its nose destroyed.A sniffer dog found the baby's bottle in a secluded spot near the crash site.
Military aircraft dumped 10,000 flyers into the forest with survival tips and instructions in Spanish and the children's own Indigenous language. On May 17, soldiers came across a makeshift shelter, constructed out of sticks and branches. A dog also found scissors and hair ties. In this photo released by Colombia's Armed Forces Press Office, soldiers and indigenous men pose for a photo with the four indigenous brothers who were missing after a deadly plane crash, in the Solano jungle, Caqueta state, Colombia, Jun 9, 2023. On Jun 9, Petro announced that the children were found alive and released a photo showing them surrounded by soldiers and Indigenous people who participated in the search. The children appear thin and have no shoes.
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