children missing for a month in the jungle are ‘alive’, authorities say

Where are they, almost a month after their disappearance? The four children who disappeared in the Amazon jungle, after a plane crash in which their mother and two other adults perished, are “living”said the Colombian authorities, Monday, May 29.

The plane in which the three children aged 4, 9 and 13 were traveling, as well as an 11-month-old baby, disappeared from radar on May 1 in the vicinity of San José del Guaviare (Colombia). He was found on May 15, his nose crushed to the ground in the middle of dense vegetation.

The significant research resources deployed made it possible to quickly discover several “proof of life”, including footprints, chewed fruit, or makeshift shelter. On Tuesday, the approximately 200 men mobilized found a pair of sneakers and a diaper. “Based on the evidence, we conclude that the children are alive. If they were dead, it would certainly be easy to find them because they would be motionless”and the sniffer dogs launched in search of them “would guide us”General Pedro Sanchez told W Radio.

Children “accustomed to the jungle”

Research around the wreckage covers an area of ​​around 323 km2, i.e. three times the area of ​​intramural Paris. The general recognizes that he is “odd” than children “do not stop despite the dropping of more than 10,000 leaflets” explaining to them what to do and “survival kits” containing food and water. According to the children’s grandfather, the eldest of the siblings, from an indigenous Uitoto community, is “strong” And “intelligent” and was able to successfully bring his siblings to safety, “used to the jungle”.

Pedro Sanchez estimated that during the search operations his units may have come within 100m of the children, but that the rains, vegetation and marshy terrain make the search difficult.