The children were missing in the rainforest for over a month. According to the news agency Reuters, soldiers, firefighters and civil aviation authorities participated in rescuing the children.
The children who went missing in a plane crash in Colombia more than five weeks ago have been found alive. The plane carrying the children crashed in the Amazon rainforest at the beginning of May.
The children are 13, 9 and 4 years old, the youngest is only 11 months old. The children were missing for 40 days after the plane crash in early May.
– Good news for the whole country, wrote the president of Colombia Gustavo Petro on Twitter.
In addition to the tweet, Petro has added a photo in which, in addition to the search parties in the jungle, children can also be seen.
The children were searched for by a large force. According to the news agency Reuters, soldiers, firefighters and civil aviation authorities participated in the search. Petro already said once before that the children would have been found. At that time, the information turned out to be wrong.
Three adults died in the plane crash. One of the dead passengers was the children’s mother. The family belongs to the Huitoto tribe.
The crashed plane had been on its way to San Jose del Guaviare, one of the most important cities on the Colombian side of the Amazon rainforest. Traveling by plane is common in the region, because there are few roads and traveling by river is also difficult.