2023-06-10 13:04:36
“A joy for the whole country! They appeared alive, ”president Gustavo Petro announced on his Twitter account, confirming the news announced minutes before by Caracol Radio.
The four children who had been lost since May 1 in the jungles of southern Colombia, after the plane crash in which they were traveling with three adults, were found alive on Friday by soldiers who participated in their search, sources reported. officers.
“A joy for the whole country! The 4 children who were lost 40 days ago in the Colombian jungle appeared alive,” President Gustavo Petro announced on his Twitter account, thus confirming the news announced minutes before by Caracol Radio.
The protagonists of this miracle of surviving in the jungle for 40 days are the minors Lesly Mukutuy, 13 years old; Soleiny Mukutuy, 9; Tien Noriel Ronoque Mukutuy, 4, and one-year-old baby Cristin Neruman Ranoque.
The minors, brothers to each other, were found in a remote point between the departments of Caquetá and Guaviare where some 200 soldiers and indigenous people from various tribes who knew the jungle had searched for them for weeks.
Petro confirmed the news as soon as he got off the presidential plane from Havana, where a temporary ceasefire agreement was signed today with the guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN).
“They were alone. They themselves achieved an example of survival that will remain in history, so today those children are the children of peace”, added the president.
The Army released several photographs in which the four minors are seen sitting in a clearing in the middle of the jungle, covered with blankets and surrounded by soldiers and indigenous people. In general, all four are in good health although they appear emaciated and malnourished.
The four children were traveling with their mother, another adult and the pilot of a Cessna 206 plane operated by the Avianline Charter’s company that crashed on May 1. All three adults died in the accident and their bodies were found several days later.
Since the plane was found, a gigantic search operation began for the four children. A military helicopter was sent to the scene to take them out of the jungle and transfer them to an urban center.
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