Posted on 06/11/2023 6:29:43 AM PDT by nuconvert
our children who were found alive 40 days after their light plane crashed in the Amazon jungle have been reunited with their relatives.
The siblings – Lesly, 13, Soleiny, nine, Tien Noriel, four, and baby Cristin, who had just had his first birthday – had to fend for themselves after their mum and the pilots died in the accident in a remote part of Colombia.
The country’s army on Saturday tweeted pictures of soldiers and volunteers posing with the children, who were wrapped in thermal blankets.
The children have been reunited with relatives as they recover in hospital.
Their grandfather Fidencio Valencia said they’re “very weak” but “happy to see their family”.
Their grandmother, Fatima Valencia, said their mother Lesly was used to looking after them and that helped them survive: “She gave them flour and cassava bread, any fruit in the bush, they know what they must consume.”
The plane was found on May 16 but the children, from the Huitoto indigenous group, kept on the move, eluding searchers.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro said their rescue was “a joy for the whole country”.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Amazing. Will be interesting to read how they survived all that time
I still don’t know much about this but the tiny amount of information I have seen gave the impression that it was the best time of the year for jungle fruit availability and that it was a near thing, with the kids maybe spending 2 weeks in the hospital, and the oldest girl seems to be pretty native so she had some basic familiarity with things.
Keeping that baby and a toddler alive, and while you are a weakening 13 and 9-year-old as the weeks then a month, and then more time goes by is quite a phenomenal accomplishment.
I’m amazed that they kept searching for them for so long
The description is that (especially) the native searchers felt that the girls might know enough that one or more could still be alive.
Imagine finding the intact group alive, that country must be celebrating to the max.
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A link directly to that article.
https://www.independent.co.uk/world/colombia-jungle-rescue-amazon-rescue-b2355389.html
Here is another good article on them, it was a close thing and I am still fascinated by them keeping that 11-month-old baby alive, which must have required constant attention and super attention to tiny details of hydration and care to keep it from just eventually fading out.
4 children who survived 40 days in Colombian jungle recover as harrowing details emerge
Read more at: https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/nation-world/world/article276306916.html#storylink=cpy
https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/nation-world/world/article276306916.html
How they weren’t injured or killed by animals is remarkable.
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