The four Indigenous children who survived 40 days in the Amazon jungle after their plane crashed have shared limited but harrowing details.
Fidencio Valencia, a child’s uncle, told the media outlet Noticias Caracol that the children were starting to talk and one of them said they hid in tree trunks to protect themselves in a jungle area filled with snakes, animals and mosquitoes. He said they were exhausted.
The children were travelling with their mother from the Amazonian village of Araracuara to the town of San Jose del Guaviare when the plane went down. After being rescued on Friday, the children were transported in a helicopter to Bogota and then to the military hospital, where President Gustavo Petro, government and military officials, as well as family members met with the children on Saturday.
Two weeks after the crash on May 16, a search team found the plane in a thick patch of the rainforest and recovered the bodies of the three adults on board, but the small children were nowhere to be found.
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