Colombian President Gustavo Petro has claimed that four children have been found alive two weeks after a plane crash in the Amazon.
Now he retracts the information.
“I am sorry for what happened,” President Petro wrote on social media.
Yesterday, Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced that four children have been found in the Amazon jungle – 17 days after a plane crash.
– After painstaking search efforts by our military forces, we have found the four children who disappeared due to the plane crash in Guaviare alive. A joy for the country, the president told local media.
The president poodles
But now he poodles and retracts the claim.
“I have decided to remove it because the information from the ICBF could not be confirmed. I’m sorry for what happened,” he wrote on Twitter.
He also announces that the military and the local population are continuing the search in order to “give good news”.
Three adults and four children
The single-engine plane was en route from the Araracuara region to the city of San José Del Guaviare on May 1 when the pilot reported engine trouble. Then the plane disappeared from flight radar.
Seven people were on board the plane, three adults and four children. The youngest child must be 11 months old.
The adults are said to have been found in or near the aircraft, but the children are thus still missing.