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Colombia: “Half-eaten fruits and footprints in the ground” – How the authorities found four children

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Colombia: “Half-eaten fruits and footprints in the ground” – How the authorities found four children

news like four children missing for forty days have been found alive and well after the crash of a small plane in which they were flying, it caused excitement not only in Colombia, but throughout the world.

Siblings aged 1 to 13 wandered alone for weeks in the thick jungles of the Colombian Amazon after their mother and the rest of the plane’s passengers were killed.

The chance of the children being found alive seemed to decrease with each passing day in the highly hostile environment where they hunt for prey. jaguars, cougars, reptiles and other predators. There are also voracious insects of all kinds, and there was also an acute problem finding drinking water.

Colombia:
Four babies left behind a diaper – Photo: Reuters

Dissidents of the former organization are also active in this area. FARC rebelsin particular a group with which peace talks have recently broken off.

More than a hundred soldiers, with the help of specially trained dogs and dozens of indigenous people, searched for the children in the jungle on the border of Guaviare and Caqueta prefectures after the plane was seen nose to the ground in dense vegetation.

“Traces” showed that the children are alive

Search and rescue teams, which for weeks “combed” the area, they would have lost hope long ago if they had not found half-eaten wild fruits, shoes, a rough shelter and footprints in the dirt and mud that indicated the children were alive.

Colombia:
The wire for mobile phones, according to the authorities, revived the hopes of rescuers – Photo: Reuters

The Colombian military tweeted more photos of the brothers found sitting on burlap, surrounded by soldiers and locals who offered them food and drink. The two elders were dressed in torn jeans and long-sleeved T-shirts, their legs wrapped in strips of cloth.

The children, aged 13, 9, 4 and 1, were members of the indigenous Huitoto tribe and, as indicated by their relatives during the search operation for them, knew how to survive in the jungle.

They were flown by an Air Force plane to Bogota, where

Source: BBC

Author: newsroom

Source: Kathimerini

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