Youngsters discovered alive weeks after Colombian aircraft crash

4 kids from an Indigenous group in Colombia have been discovered alive within the south of the nation greater than 5 weeks after the aircraft they have been travelling in crashed in thick jungle.

The kids have been rescued by the navy close to the border between Colombia’s Caqueta and Guaviare provinces, near the place the small aircraft had crashed.

“A pleasure for the entire nation! The 4 kids who have been misplaced … within the Colombian jungle appeared alive,” Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro stated on Friday on Twitter.

The aircraft – a Cessna 206 – was carrying seven folks on a route between Araracuara, in Amazonas province, and San Jose del Guaviare, a metropolis in Guaviare province, when it issued a mayday alert attributable to engine failure within the early hours of Might 1.

Three adults, together with the pilot, died because of the crash and their our bodies have been discovered contained in the aircraft.

4 kids, aged 13, 9, 4 and 11 months, survived the influence.

Preliminary data from the civil aviation authority, which co-ordinated the rescue efforts, suggests the kids escaped the aircraft and set off into the rainforest to search out assist.

Rescuers, supported by search canine, had beforehand discovered discarded fruit the kids ate to outlive, in addition to improvised shelters made with jungle vegetation.

Airplanes and helicopters from Colombia’s military and air drive participated within the rescue operations.

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