Four children, between 13-years and 11-months old, were found after surviving 40 days in the Amazon jungle following a plane crash. The three adults accompanying them all died as a result of the crash.
Lesly Jacobombaire Mucutuy, aged 13, Soleiny Jacobombaire Mucutuy, nine, Tien Ranoque Mucutuy, four, and 11-month-old Cristin Ranoque Mucutuy survived the crash over the jungle on May 1. The three adults accompanying them, their mother Magdalena Mucutuy Valencia, pilot Hernando Murcia Morales and Yarupari indigenous leader Herman Mendoza Hernández all died as a result of the crash.
“Their learning from indigenous families and their learning of living in the jungle has saved them,” Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro told reporters on Friday. Petro was referring to the children's Huitoto heritage, which is also known as Witoto. “They are children of the jungle, and now they are children of Colombia.”
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