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Columbia: Four children found alive in jungle 40 days after plane crash

Four children have been found alive in the Colombian jungle more than five weeks after the plane they were travelling in crashed in the thick jungle.

Colombia’s military found the four children aged 13, 9 , 4, and 12-month-old, who survived a plane crash on May 1, Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said.

“A joy for the whole country! The four children who were lost … in the Colombian jungle appeared alive,” Petro said in a message via Twitter.

The children from an Indigenous community were rescued on Friday near the border between Colombia’s Caqueta and Guaviare provinces, close to where the small plane had crashed.

The plane – a Cessna 206 – was carrying seven people on a route between Araracuara, in Amazonas province, and San Jose del Guaviare, a city in Guaviare province, when it issued a Mayday alert due to engine failure in the early hours of May 1.

Three adults, including the pilot, died as a result of the crash and their bodies were found inside the plane.

“As the grandfather to my grandchildren who disappeared in the jungles of the Yari, at this moment I am very happy,” said Narcizo Mucutuy, the grandfather of the three girls and one boy.

The children are members of the Huitoto people, and officials said the older siblings had some knowledge of how to survive in the rainforest, according to Al Jazeera.

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