Four children found alive after being lost in Colombian jungle for 40 days
Graeme Massie
Los Angeles
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In this handout picture released by the Colombian Presidency members the Army pose four Indigenous children after spending more than a month lost in the Colombian Amazon rainforest following a small plane crash, in Colombia's Guaviare jungle on June 9, 2023
In this handout picture released by the Colombian Presidency members the Army pose four Indigenous children after spending more than a month lost in the Colombian Amazon rainforest following a small plane crash, in Colombia's Guaviare jungle on June 9, 2023
(Colombian Presidency/AFP via Get)
Four children who survived a plane crash have been found alive after 40 days lost in a Colombian jungle, according to the country’s president.
Gustavo Petro announced that the four siblings who disappeared after a plane they were on went down in the Amazon rainforest had survived their ordeal and were receiving medical treatment.
“A joy for the whole country! The 4 children who were lost 40 days ago in the Colombian jungle appeared alive,” Mr Petro tweeted on Friday.
The president said the youngsters, who were found alone, are an “example of survival” and predicted their saga “will remain in history.”
The siblings - 13-year-old Lesly Jacobombaire Mucutuy, nine-year-old Soleiny Jacobombaire Mucutuy, four-year-old Tien Noriel Ronoque Mucutuy and 11-month-old Cristin Neriman Ranoque Mucutuy - were travelling in a Cessna 206 plane when it crashed on 1 May near the Guaviare province.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/colombia-jungle-lost-children-found-b2355002.html
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Good news!
All this good news all of a sudden, feels good.
To tell you the truth, I didn't believe they would be found alive.
This is a GREAT day.
I don't want to sound like I'm stereotyping but relying on my studies of cultures my guess would be that...
They are indigenous children and some are at least ten. Many indigenous cultures teach their children how to survive at young ages, I think that had much to do with it. They were all family members, that may have helped them maintain a mindset to move forward to survive.
That's my best guess.
That could be what saved them..... with no one pitching fits or striking out in a different direction.
I'll bet it was their love for the tiniest one which kept it alive, they probably made every effort to protect the little one.
I'll bet you're so right, being indigenous, they wouldn't freak out in the jungle, being familiar with the environment already. Just thinking about it as I typed my comment on your comment brought tears into my eyes, and a running nose.
It's great you shared your thoughts. It touched at least one reader deeply and unexpectedly.
Thank you.
Referring to the children but applies more broadly overall, to immediate change and tragedy through the lens of their understanding. If they are knowledgeable of their surroundings... the dangers and useful plants and features of the landscape, they would be able to weather the loss of the family adults who perished. Their belief in life and death could also be one that we might not understand but was practical in nature enough to get them through it. Plus the season may have helped.
A lot of possibilities. It's good that they were found.
mz/kb 10.06.2023, 07:44
EPA/MILITARY FORCES OF COLOMBIA via: PAP/EPA.
Four children who had been missing in Colombia’s dense jungle area for more than 40 days were airlifted on Friday after their dramatic rescue.
“Today, in an unprecedented operation in our country’s history, with the help of God, we achieved something we thought was impossible: the locating and rescue of the four minors who were lost in the jungle for more than 40 days. Because of the inter-institutional effort and the willingness and interaction of indigenous communities with Colombian soldiers, we were able to form combined teams of search units,” said General Helder Fernan Giraldo Bonilla.
The children, who belong to an indigenous community, were found alive in the country’s south more than five weeks after the plane they were traveling in crashed.
Videos shared by the Colombian Air Force show the military pulling the kids into a helicopter that was flying 60 meters (196.85 feet) in the air.
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Cooperation between indigenous peoples and the armed forces was instrumental in finding the children alive, Commander of the Colombian Armed Forces General Helder Fernan Giraldo Bonilla said.
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https://tvpworld.com/70456381/rescued-children-airlifted-by-helicopter-out-of-colombian-jungle