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Presidency/Handout via REUTERSBOGOTA, June 11 (Reuters) - Four Indigenous children who were missing for more than five weeks in Colombia's southern jungle will tell their own story about the ordeal, the father of the two youngest siblings said on Sunday. "They will tell their stories and you will hear them," said Manuel Ranoque, the father of the 1-year-old and 5-year-old siblings, after visiting them at Bogota's military hospital. "It's not easy to ask them because the children went 40 days without eating well, so I have not been able to get information from the oldest child," Ranoque told reporters. Ranoque also told reporters the children's mother had survived for four days after the crash, an account disputed by another family member who also spoke to journalists. Reporting by Herbert Villarraga and Liamar Ramos; Writing by Carolina Pulice; Editing by Diane CraftOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons: San Jose del Guaviare, Manuel Ranoque, Ranoque, Herbert Villarraga, Liamar Ramos, Carolina Pulice, Diane Craft Organizations: Colombian, Cessna, REUTERS, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Caqueta, REUTERS BOGOTA, Caqueta province, Araracuara, San Jose, Guaviare
BOGOTA, June 9 (Reuters) - Four children from an Indigenous community in Colombia were found alive in the south of the country more than five weeks after the plane they were traveling in crashed in thick jungle, Colombia's President Gustavo Petro said on Friday. The children were rescued by the military near the border between Colombia's Caqueta and Guaviare provinces, close to where the small plane had crashed. The four children who were lost ... in the Colombian jungle appeared alive," Petro said in a message via Twitter. Three adults, including the pilot, died as a result of the crash and their bodies were found inside the plane. Preliminary information from the civil aviation authority, which coordinated the rescue efforts, suggests the children escaped the plane and set off into the rainforest to find help.
Persons: Gustavo Petro, Petro, San Jose del Guaviare, Luis Jaime Acosta, Oliver Griffin, Jamie Freed Organizations: Cessna, Thomson Locations: BOGOTA, Colombia, Colombia's, Guaviare, Colombian, Araracuara, Amazonas province, San Jose, Guaviare province
[1/5] A view of ambulances and a plane from San Jose del Guaviare bringing in child survivors from a Cessna 206 plane that crashed in thick jungle, at the CATAM military airbase, in Bogota, Colombia, June 10, 2023. REUTERS/Luisa GonzalezBOGOTA, June 10 (Reuters) - Four Indigenous children who were missing for more than five weeks in a jungle in Colombia's south following a deadly plane crash arrived in the capital Bogota early on Saturday for medical treatment. In photos shared by Colombia's military, the four children - three girls and a boy - appeared gaunt as they were being cared for by rescuers. After the plane carrying the children landed in Bogota, four ambulances were waiting at to collect them and take them to a military hospital for specialist medical care. Three adults, including the pilot and the children's mother, died in the crash and their bodies were found inside the plane.
Persons: San Jose del Guaviare, Luisa Gonzalez BOGOTA, Hope, Pedro Sanchez, gaunt, Luis Jaime Acosta, Oliver Griffin, Jamie Freed Organizations: Cessna, REUTERS, Thomson Locations: San Jose, Bogota, Colombia, Colombia's, Colombia's Caqueta, Araracuara, Caqueta, Guaviare
Four children from an Indigenous community in Colombia were found alive in the country's south on June 9, Friday - more than five weeks after the plane they were traveling in crashed in thick jungle, Colombia's President Gustavo Petro said. Four children from an Indigenous community in Colombia were found alive in the country's south on Friday more than five weeks after the plane they were traveling in crashed in thick jungle, Colombia's President Gustavo Petro said. Photos shared by Colombia's military showed a group of soldiers with the four children in the middle of the jungle. The four children who were lost ... in the Colombian jungle appeared alive," Petro said in a message via Twitter. They found them, it makes me very happy," Petro told journalists on Friday, adding the children had defended themselves alone in the middle of the jungle.
Persons: Gustavo Petro, San Jose del Guaviare, Magdalena Mucutuy, Narcizo Mucutuy, Petro Organizations: Cessna, Twitter Locations: Colombia, Colombia's, Guaviare, Araracuara, Amazonas province, San Jose, Guaviare province, Colombian
Child plane crash survivors in "acceptable" state of health
  + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
BOGOTA, June 10 (Reuters) - Four Indigenous children who were missing for more than five weeks in Colombia's southern jungle, after surviving a plane crash which killed their mother, are in an "acceptable" state of health, the government said on Saturday. "In general the boy and the girls are in an acceptable state. The youngest of the children turned one while in the jungle, while her brother had his fifth birthday, he said. Clues as to the siblings' whereabouts have been reported for weeks as the search, dubbed Operation Hope, continued. Three adults, including the pilot and the children's mother, died in the crash and their bodies were found inside the plane.
Persons: Gustavo Petro, Petro, Ivan Velasquez, Fidencio Valencia, Velasquez, General Carlos Rincon, Hope, Wilson, gaunt, Manuel Ranoque, San Jose del Guaviare, Carolina Pulice, Luis Jaime Acosta, Nelson Bocanegra, Oliver Griffin, Jamie Freed, Andrea Ricci Organizations: Twitter, Cessna, Thomson Locations: BOGOTA, Caqueta province, Bogota, Araracuara, Caqueta, San Jose, Guaviare
The children were rescued by members of the military, firefighters and civil aviation authority officials in the dense jungle of Colombia's Caqueta province. "After arduous searching by our military, we have found alive the four children who went missing after a plane crash in Guaviare. A joy for the country," Petro said in a message via Twitter. Three adults, including the pilot, died as a result of the crash and their bodies were found inside the plane. Rescuers, supported by search dogs, had previously found discarded fruit the children ate to survive, as well as improvised shelters made with jungle vegetation.
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