The children survived on cassava flour and seedsĪuthorities and family members have said the siblings survived eating cassava flour and seeds, and that some familiarity with the rainforest's fruits were also key to their survival. "The only thing that I told the kid (was), 'When you recover, we will play soccer," he said. "Uncle, I want shoes, I want to walk, but my feet hurt," Mucutuy said the child told him. The small aircraft fell off the radar a short time later and a search for survivors began.ĭairo Juvenal Mucutuy, another uncle, told local media that one of kids said he wanted to start walking. The Cessna single-engine propeller plane was carrying three adults and the four children when the pilot declared an emergency due to engine failure. The children were traveling with their mother from the Amazonian village of Araracuara to the town of San Jose del Guaviare when the plane went down. Sometimes they need to let off steam." He said family members are not talking a lot with them to give them space and time to recover from the shock. Later, Valencia provided new details of the children's recovery two days after the rescue: "They have been drawing. On Saturday, Defense Minister Iván Velásquez had said the children were being rehydrated and couldn't eat food yet. "They at least are already eating, a little, but they are eating," he said after visiting them at the military hospital in Bogota, Colombia. "They wanted to eat rice pudding, they wanted to eat bread," he said.įidencio 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 used the bottle to collect water in the jungle, and he added that after they were rescued the youngsters complained of being hungry. Henry Guerrero, an Indigenous man who was part of the search group, told reporters that the children were found with two small bags containing some clothes, a towel, a flashlight, two cellphones, a music box and a soda bottle. Authorities have not said anything about this version.ĭetails of what happened to the youngsters, and what they did, have been emerging gradually and in small pieces, so it could take some time to have a better picture of their ordeal, during which the youngest, Cristin, turned 1 year old. Ranoque said before she died, the mother likely would have told them: "Go away," apparently asking them to leave the wreckage site to survive. Manuel Ranoque, father of the two youngest children, told reporters outside the hospital Sunday that the oldest of the four siblings - 13-year-old Lesly Jacobombaire Mucutuy - had described to him how their mother was alive for about four days after the plane crashed on May 1 in the Colombian jungle. The siblings, aged 13, 9, 4 and 1, are expected to remain for at least two weeks in a hospital receiving treatment after their rescue Friday, but some are already speaking and wanting to do more more than lie in bed, relatives said. On Saturday in Bogota, Colombia, military personnel unload from a plane one of four Indigenous children who were missing after a deadly plane crash.īOGOTA, Colombia - The four Indigenous children who survived 40 days in the Amazon jungle after their plane crashed have shared limited but harrowing details of their ordeal with their family, including that their mother survived the crash for days before she died.
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