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Eldest of rescued Colombian children pulled sister from plane wreckage

One of the surviving children from a Cessna 206 plane crash in the thick jungle, holds a surgical glove with a happy face drawn on it, while being transferred to Bogota via air in San Jose del Guaviare, Colombia, on 9th June, 2023.

Bogota, Colombia Reuters The eldest of the four Indigenous children who were missing for more than five weeks in Colombia’s southern jungle after a plane crash pulled her youngest sibling from the wreckage, the children’s grandfather said on Monday. The children, aged one through 13, survived the 1st May crash that killed their mother and […]

Children who survived five weeks in Colombia jungle will tell own story: father

Manuel Ranoque, father of the child survivors of a Cessna 206 plane, that crashed in thick jungle, speaks to the media, near the central military hospital, where the children are hospitalised, Bogota, Colombia, on 11th June, 2023.

Bogota, Colombia Reuters Four Indigenous children who were missing for more than five weeks in Colombia’s southern jungle will tell their own story about the ordeal, the father of the two youngest siblings said on Sunday.  The children, aged one through 13, survived a 1st May plane crash that killed their mother and two other […]

Four Colombian children found alive in jungle weeks after plane crash

Colombian military soldiers attend to child survivors from a Cessna 206 plane that crashed on 1st May in the jungles of Caqueta, in limits between Caqueta and Guaviare, in this handout photo released on 9th June, 2023.

Bogota, Colombia Reuters Four children from an Indigenous community in Colombia were found alive in the country’s south on Friday more than five weeks after the plane they were traveling in crashed in thick jungle, Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said. The siblings were rescued by the military near the border between Colombia’s Caqueta and Guaviare […]