Children Lost in Amazon Jungle After Plane Crash Found Alive
A handout from the Colombian army shows a pair of scissors found in the forest during a search last month for four children lost after a plane crash. Photo: handout/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images By Juan Forero June 9, 2023 9:21 pm ET BOGOTÁ, Colombia—Four children, including a baby, were found alive in the Amazon jungle on Friday nearly six weeks after they survived the crash of a small plane and wandered into the wilderness, Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced. “A joy for the whole country!” Petro said on his Twitter account Friday night. “The four children who were lost in the Colombian jungle for 40 days appeared alive.” The president said that the children—siblings ranging in age from 13 years old to one year old—received medical attention in the
A handout from the Colombian army shows a pair of scissors found in the forest during a search last month for four children lost after a plane crash.
Photo: handout/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
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BOGOTÁ, Colombia—Four children, including a baby, were found alive in the Amazon jungle on Friday nearly six weeks after they survived the crash of a small plane and wandered into the wilderness, Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced.
“A joy for the whole country!” Petro said on his Twitter account Friday night. “The four children who were lost in the Colombian jungle for 40 days appeared alive.”
The president said that the children—siblings ranging in age from 13 years old to one year old—received medical attention in the small town of San José del Guaviare in southern Colombia and could be transported to Bogotá, the capital.
The ordeal for the children began on May 1 when the engine of the Cessna 206 the children were traveling in sputtered and shut off over a swath of virgin jungle known as home to both jaguars and narco-trafficking groups whose members are former Marxist rebels. Indigenous trackers located the lost plane two weeks later, on May 16, its single engine smashed into the ground and three people, including the pilot, dead inside.
Authorities said the children—13-year-old Lesly Jacobombaire ; Soleiny Jacobombaire, 9; Tien Ranoque, 5; and the baby, Cristin Ranoque —survived the impact and abandoned the plane.
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