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On Saturday June 10, four children aged 1 to 13 were found in Colombia, having survived for 40 days alone in the Amazon jungle.
In front of the military hospital in Bogota, Colombia, indigenous people expressed their gratitude for the rescue of the four little survivors. The children, aged 1 to 13, were found on Saturday June 10 after 40 days of wandering in the Amazon jungle. They are the only survivors of the crash of a small plane, which carried away the pilot and a relative. Their mother died four days later.
Children raised in the middle of the forest
But how to explain this incredible ending? The big sister would have played a key role. “We can truly say that it is thanks to her and her care that her three little brothers were able to survive by her side”, says Ivan Velasquez, the Colombian Minister of Defense. The children, members of an indigenous community, were brought up in the middle of the forest. Their parents taught them how to survive in the jungle among wild animals. Their hospital stay is expected to last two weeks. Dehydrated, they must relearn how to drink and eat.