2023-06-11 16:47:38
Colombia
The mother of the surviving children survived the crash for 4 days
The father of the four children who survived the Colombian jungle said his eldest daughter gave information about the plane crash.
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Manuel Miller Ranoque Morales is the father of four children.
The mother of four surviving children After 40 days of wandering in the jungle in Colombia, she survived the plane crash for four days before succumbing to her injuries, her husband revealed on Sunday. “My daughter told me that her mother was alive for four days,” Manuel Miller Ranoque Morales told reporters outside the Bogota military hospital where the children are cared for.
Four Uiototo indigenous children, Lesly (13), Soleiny (9), Tien Noriel (5) and Cristin (1) were found alive on Friday afternoon by rescuers, as they wandered alone in the jungle since the crash on May 1 from the small Cessna 206 plane on which they were traveling with their mother, the pilot and a relative. All three adults died in the crash. “Before she died, the mother said to them, ‘Go ahead, go! Maybe you will see who your father is, and you will know what a father’s love is, as I have shown you,” explained Manuel Miller Ranoque Morales.
They were fleeing the FARC
On the morning of May 1, the small plane Cessna 206 belonging to the company Avianline Charters had left an area of jungle known as Araracuara to go to San José del Guaviare (south), one of the main cities of the ‘Colombian Amazon.
A few minutes after the plane took off for a journey of some 350 km over the jungle, the captain reported an engine problem. The plane then disappeared from radar. The soldiers found him between May 15 and 16, in the south of the department of Caqueta. The aircraft was vertical, nose planted on the ground, in the middle of dense vegetation.
The pilot was found dead in the cockpit. The native chief and the mother of the family were also found dead, without the soldiers saying where exactly. According to information released by the authorities, the children had flown with their mother to flee threats from the FARC dissent, which rejects the historic peace agreement signed in 2016 with this Marxist guerrilla.
(AFP)
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