Colombia plane crash: Four children found alive in Amazon after 40 days missing
Four children have been found alive more than a month after their plane crashed in Colombia's Amazon jungle, the country's president has said.
The siblings, aged 13, nine, four and a one-year-old baby, were on board the plane with their mother, a pilot and a co-pilot when it crashed on 1 May.President Gustavo Petro said finding the children after weeks of searching was "a joy for the whole country". He called it a "magical day", adding: "They were alone, they themselves achieved an example of total survival which will remain in history.Mr Petro shared a photograph of several members of the military and Indigenous community tending to the siblings, who had been missing for 40 days.
He said the children were now receiving medical attention - and that he had spoken to their grandfather, who told him "the mother jungle returned them". The Cessna 206 aircraft the children and their mother had been travelling on was flying from Araracuara, in Amazonas province, to San José del Guaviare, when it issued a mayday alert due to engine failure.Preliminary information from the civil aviation authority suggested the children escaped the wreckage and wandered into the rainforest to find help, Reuters news agency reported.
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