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Colombia Plane Crash: Four Children Found Alive In Amazon After 40 Days by obedience4(m): 1:07pm On Jun 10, 2023
Four children have been found alive after surviving a plane crash and spending weeks fending for themselves in Colombia's Amazon jungle

Colombia's president said the rescue of the siblings, aged 13, nine, four and one, was "a joy for the whole country".The children's mother and two pilots were killed when their light aircraft crashed in the jungle on 1 May

The missing children became the focus of a huge rescue operation involving dozens of soldiers and local people.President Gustavo Petro said finding the group was a "magical day", adding: "They were alone, they themselves achieved an example of total survival which will remain in history."

The children belong to the Huitoto indigenous group. Mr Petro shared a photograph of several members of the military and Indigenous community caring for the siblings, who had been missing for 40 days.One of the rescuers held a bottle up to the mouth of the smallest child, while another fed one of the other children from a mug with a spoon.

A video shared by Colombia's ministry of defence showed the children being air-lifted into a helicopter in the dark above the tall trees of the jungle. They have been flown to the nation's capital Bogota, where ambulances have taken them to hospital for further medical treatment

The children's grandmother, Fatima Valencia, said after their rescue: "I am very grateful, and to mother earth as well, that they were set free." She said the eldest of the four siblings was used to looking after the other three when their mother was at work, and that this helped them survive in the jungle."She gave them flour and cassava bread, any fruit in the bush, they know what they must consume," Ms Valencia said in footage obtained by EVN.

The Cessna 206 aircraft the children and their mother had been travelling on before the crash was flying from Araracuara, in Amazonas province, to San JosΓ© del Guaviare, when it issued a mayday alert due to engine failure.

The bodies of the three adults were found at the crash site by the army, but it appeared that the children had escaped the wreckage and wandered into the rainforest to find help. A massive search began and in May, rescuers recovered items left behind by the children, including a child's drinking bottle, a pair of scissors, a hair tie and a makeshift shelter.

Small footprints were also discovered, which led search teams to believe the children were still alive in the rainforest, which is home to jaguars, snakes and other predators. Members of the children's community hoped that their knowledge of fruits and jungle survival skills would give them a better chance of remaining alive.

Indigenous people joined the search and helicopters broadcast a message from the children's grandmother, recorded in the Huitoto language, urging them to stop moving to make them easier to locate. After they were found, their grandfather, Fidencio Valencia, called on the authorities to allow the children to be moved closer to their family in Villavicencio, roughly 130km (142 miles) from Bogota.
"I am asking the president as the highest authority, I am sorry to bother him, but it is my right and my duty, it is my blood, it is my family. I want to see the children, here in Villavicencio," he said in an interview also obtained by EVN

Earlier Mr Petro said he had spoken to the children's grandfather. The president came under criticism last month when a tweet published on his account mistakenly announced that the children had been found. He erased the tweet the next day saying that the information - which his office had been given by Colombia's child welfare agency - could not be confirmed.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-65864158

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Re: Colombia Plane Crash: Four Children Found Alive In Amazon After 40 Days by LikeAking: 1:19pm On Jun 10, 2023
Good news.

Will make a great movie theme.

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Re: Colombia Plane Crash: Four Children Found Alive In Amazon After 40 Days by dawnomike(m): 1:24pm On Jun 10, 2023
This is a real story of a will to survive... wow!

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Re: Colombia Plane Crash: Four Children Found Alive In Amazon After 40 Days by oyebanji44: 1:28pm On Jun 10, 2023
Oh boy ! This one na deep forest

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Re: Colombia Plane Crash: Four Children Found Alive In Amazon After 40 Days by Kharol1234: 1:48pm On Jun 10, 2023
Lucky kids

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Re: Colombia Plane Crash: Four Children Found Alive In Amazon After 40 Days by HeartlessMan: 2:11pm On Jun 10, 2023
Actually, it's only Jaguars that are mainly found in the jungle and they rarely come out. The jungle is home to pythons, crocs and monkeys.

Lions, Tigers, Hyenas and most predators live in the Savannah.

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Re: Colombia Plane Crash: Four Children Found Alive In Amazon After 40 Days by joinnow: 2:11pm On Jun 10, 2023
God save them,
no anacoda sighted them

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Re: Colombia Plane Crash: Four Children Found Alive In Amazon After 40 Days by samwash(m): 2:34pm On Jun 10, 2023
Glory be to God most high they where found alive.
A country that put the warfare of it's citizens as a priority.
In my country, na then go use their leg come out of the jungle, only if them survive ham.

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Re: Colombia Plane Crash: Four Children Found Alive In Amazon After 40 Days by finallybusy: 3:03pm On Jun 10, 2023
Surprising how they survived a location which would kill the average Caucasian adult. People really are built different.

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Re: Colombia Plane Crash: Four Children Found Alive In Amazon After 40 Days by Dotherightthing: 4:46pm On Jun 10, 2023
Glory be to God in the highest. Hallelujah!

God is good!!

40 days? What a miracle!!!

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Re: Colombia Plane Crash: Four Children Found Alive In Amazon After 40 Days by Mantilla(m): 4:49pm On Jun 10, 2023
😁😁 I see a movie coming through..

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Re: Colombia Plane Crash: Four Children Found Alive In Amazon After 40 Days by slawomir: 4:54pm On Jun 10, 2023
Damnnn niggar

Quick recovery

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Re: Colombia Plane Crash: Four Children Found Alive In Amazon After 40 Days by Xscape1993(m): 4:54pm On Jun 10, 2023
Thank God for their lives...

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Re: Colombia Plane Crash: Four Children Found Alive In Amazon After 40 Days by Hambivert: 4:54pm On Jun 10, 2023
Although the story of these children may fetch them cool money, they are already scarred for life. Seeing ones dear mother die and having to endure days alone in the forest is life changing, and at this very age the effect can even sparogatively lead to high levels of PTSD.
I wish them well. They need help.

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Re: Colombia Plane Crash: Four Children Found Alive In Amazon After 40 Days by Mainnews: 4:55pm On Jun 10, 2023
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Re: Colombia Plane Crash: Four Children Found Alive In Amazon After 40 Days by 9JaSweet: 4:55pm On Jun 10, 2023
Please where is the Amazon? πŸ€”

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Re: Colombia Plane Crash: Four Children Found Alive In Amazon After 40 Days by Ihateheadslamer: 4:55pm On Jun 10, 2023
Miracle no de tire God

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Re: Colombia Plane Crash: Four Children Found Alive In Amazon After 40 Days by KingLennon(m): 4:55pm On Jun 10, 2023
If I say it is God who protected them, Atheists will come for my head. But they are the same people who will shout 'Jesus' when they are in danger wink

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Re: Colombia Plane Crash: Four Children Found Alive In Amazon After 40 Days by stillme231: 4:56pm On Jun 10, 2023
wow wow wow. God be praised πŸ™

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Re: Colombia Plane Crash: Four Children Found Alive In Amazon After 40 Days by Maize247(f): 4:56pm On Jun 10, 2023
Miracle

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Re: Colombia Plane Crash: Four Children Found Alive In Amazon After 40 Days by rajiedreez: 4:56pm On Jun 10, 2023
Wow

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Re: Colombia Plane Crash: Four Children Found Alive In Amazon After 40 Days by Sucre6: 4:56pm On Jun 10, 2023
LikeAking:
Good news.

Will make a great movie theme.

Havent u seen lost?

Great movie, God is indeed great πŸ™Œβ˜Ί

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Re: Colombia Plane Crash: Four Children Found Alive In Amazon After 40 Days by GlobalWay: 4:57pm On Jun 10, 2023
Wow!

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Re: Colombia Plane Crash: Four Children Found Alive In Amazon After 40 Days by Ismael97(m): 4:57pm On Jun 10, 2023
Thank God

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Re: Colombia Plane Crash: Four Children Found Alive In Amazon After 40 Days by stillme231: 4:57pm On Jun 10, 2023
HeartlessMan:
Actually, it's only Jaguars that are mainly found in the jungle and they rarely come out. The jungle is home to pythons, crocs and monkeys.

Lions, Tigers, Hyenas and most predators live in the Savannah.
wetin be all this.. abeg go one side

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Re: Colombia Plane Crash: Four Children Found Alive In Amazon After 40 Days by SangoOlukosoOba(m): 4:57pm On Jun 10, 2023
It’s been proven again that the rear seats are always the safest!

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Re: Colombia Plane Crash: Four Children Found Alive In Amazon After 40 Days by PussyKing(m): 4:57pm On Jun 10, 2023
HeartlessMan:
Actually, it's only Jaguars that are mainly found in the jungle and they rarely come out. The jungle is home to pythons, crocs and monkeys.

Lions, Tigers, Hyenas and most predators live in the Savannah.

Where is Buhari found

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Re: Colombia Plane Crash: Four Children Found Alive In Amazon After 40 Days by Padipadi: 4:58pm On Jun 10, 2023
Jesu Kristi

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Re: Colombia Plane Crash: Four Children Found Alive In Amazon After 40 Days by omophunky(m): 4:58pm On Jun 10, 2023

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Re: Colombia Plane Crash: Four Children Found Alive In Amazon After 40 Days by schoolboymatt(m): 4:58pm On Jun 10, 2023
shocked

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