The 13-year-old guided her three sisters and one-year-old brother Cristian Neriman through the Colombian Amazon rainforest for more than a month Robert Macphail reports
The siblings and their mother, Magdalena Mucutuy, were flying to be with their father, Manuel Ranoque, who had fled the area after being threatened by crime gangs. The family hoped to start a new life in Bogota – but it was not to be.
A baby’s dummy, a half-eaten apple, nappies, and a hair band were found nearby. Rescuers realised the children were still alive. Operation Hope began., the rescuers finally found the children when they dropped food and leaflets and played a message from the children’s grandmother over a speaker telling them not to move.Their grandfather said they had subsisted on seeds, part of the Huitoto diet.
Colombian Defence Minister Ivan Velasquez, who visited the children in the hospital, said they are recovering, but could not yet eat solid food.
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