Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced that the four children had been located and were in good health. Hours later, he clarified that the youngsters’ location remains unknown. Andrea Blanco reports
Seventeen days after a small aircraft crashed in the Colombian Amazon rainforest, the country is holding its breath over confusing reports that four children have survived the ordeal.
The siblings – 13-year-old Lesly Jacobombaire Mucutuy, nine-year-old Soleiny Jacobombaire Mucutuy, four-year-old Tien Noriel Ronoque Mucutuy and 11-month-old Cristin Neriman Ranoque Mucutuy – were travelling in a Cessna 206 plane when it crashed on 1 May near the Guaviare province.
Their mother Magdalena Mucutuy, the plane’s pilot, and another passenger died in the accident but the minors were nowhere to be found, the Colombian Air Force said in a statement.
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Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/colombia-amazon-plane-crash-children-rescue-b2341650.html
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