The mother of the four childrenfound alive in the Amazon following a plane crashinitially survived, according to her oldest child.
Siblings Lesly Jacobombaire Mucutuy, 13, Soleiny Jacobombaire Mucutuy, 9, Tien Ranoque Mucutuy, 4, and Cristin Ranoque Mucutuy, 11 months, were discovered in the Colombian jungle on Friday — 40 days after the crash on May 1 —CNN reported.
According to the oldest sibling, their mother, Magdalena Mucutuy Valencia, was alive for about four days after the plane crash, Manuel Ranoque — the father of the two youngest children —told reporterson Sunday.
Ranoque said Lesly told him the information, as he spoke outside the military hospital where the children were transported to on Saturday, in Bogotá, Colombia.
Four children were found alive in the Amazon following the plane crash on Friday.Sygma via Getty Images / Getty Images
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An uncle, Dairo Juvenal Mucutuy, also told local media that one child wanted to start walking, but their “feet hurt.”
He also said their time in the jungle was an example of “total survival that will be remembered in history."
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The children’s rescue, which Petro said was a “joy for the whole country” ina tweet, was the result of a military-led, deep-forest search operation, perABC News.
According toCBS, the children were traveling with their mom and two other adults from the Amazonian village of Araracuara to San Jose del Guaviare at the time of the plane crash.
The outlet reported that the pilot declared an emergency after the single-engine failed in the aircraft, before falling off the radar.
source: people.com
