Four young children have been found alive after more than a month wandering the Amazon where they survived like 'children of the jungle.'
Colombia plane crash survivors, 4 children, who have been lost in the Amazon jungle for 40 days were found alive after an intensive search.Four young children have been found alive after more than a month wandering the Amazon where they survived like "children of the jungle," according to Colombia's President Gustavo Petro.
Their grandmother, María Fátima Valencia, said she was "going to hug all of them" and "thank everyone" as soon as they were reunited in their home city of Villavicencio, where they live.The children, who appear gaunt in the photos, were evaluated by doctors before being flown out by the Colombian Air Force on an air ambulance to the Military Transport Air Command in Bogota, the capital, early Saturday morning.
"We hope that tomorrow they will be treated at the military hospital," Defense Minister Ivan Velasquez said earlier Friday night, while praising the Colombian military and indigenous communities for helping find them. The children's subsequent disappearance into the deep forest galvanized a massive military-led search operation involving over a hundred Colombian special forces troops and over 70 indigenous scouts combing the area.
The grandfather, Fidencio Valencia, said he and his wife had endured many sleepless nights worrying about the children. "I beg the president of Colombia to bring our grandchildren to Villavicencio, here where the grandparents are, where their uncles and aunts are, and then take them to Bogota," he said.Indigenous leader Lucho Acosta, the coordinator of indigenous scouts, credited the "extra effort" of search and rescue teams and local authorities to find the children in a statement on Friday.
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