Eating cassava flour helped save the lives of four children found alive in the Amazon jungle more than a month after their plane crashed
The children ate “three kilograms of farina,” a coarse cassava flour commonly used by indigenous tribes in the Amazon region, said spokesperson Pedro Arnulfo Sánchez Suárez. “Days after the crash, they ate the farina which they had carried there… but they ran out of food and decided to look for a place where they could stay alive,” Suárez said. “They were malnourished but fully conscious and lucid when we found them,” he added.
“What’s required now is to stabilize ,” Colombian Defense Minister Ivan Velasquez told reporters who were gathered outside the hospital. The children’s mother Magdalena Mucutuy Valencia was killed in the plane crash on May 1, leaving them alone and stranded in the Amazon jungle. The plane’s pilot Hernando Murcia Morales and Yarupari indigenous leader Herman Mendoza Hernández were also killed in the accident.
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