Four children disappeared on May 1st when their plane crashed in the Amazon rainforest of Colombia. The search continues and hope remains as many clues have been found over the past few days. Still, there are gray areas in research between what the President says and what the residents say.
Lesly, 13, Soleiny, 9, Tien Noriel, 4, and Cristin Neryman, 11 months, have not been heard from them since their plane crashed on May 1 in the Amazon rainforest of Colombia. After discovering some signs of life in the jungle, the research continues. If the President of Colombia Gustavo Petro, When he announced last week that they were found safe, he went back on his statement.
How to explain this disappearance and the theories that unite about the condition of these four minors in the tropical rainforest? Gray areas continue to exist and residents are trying to keep hope alive. The Colombian Catholic Church even organized a nationwide prayer time this Sunday to “ask for her reappearance.”
Disappear
On May 1, the Cessna 2026 plane, in which seven people were traveling, crashed near the city of San José del Guaviare. The bodies of 3 adults were found near the wreck, but no trace of the four children of this family. They are 11 months, 4 years, 9 years and 13 years old and are believed to have survived and local civil security are hoping to find them alive quickly.
According to Colombian media, the children were accompanying their mother (who died in the crash), who joined her father in Bogotá and was forced to flee the village where the family lived in the jungle because of the disaster FARC rebels.
prayers of the residents
This Sunday, the Colombian media company Bluradio announced that the Colombian Catholic Church would organize a day of prayer this Sunday to search for the children.
We thank the Colombian Army, which is stationed in the middle of the Amazon jungle in our country, for searching and finding these four children. We hope in the Lord that they will return to their homes.
The country’s residents are closely following the investigation into these minors, and the case raises as many concerns as questions.
The President reconsiders his statement
At the height of media coverage of the drama, the Colombian President announced that the four children had finally been found alive and well on Wednesday, May 17, before retracting his statement the next day.
Gustavo Petro then announced that “the armed forces and indigenous communities will continue their tireless search to bring the country the news it has been waiting for.”
signs of life?
Several clues indicate that the children are still alive. Most of them 100 military During the “Espérance” search operation, personal items were found near the plane on Tuesday, including a bottle, scissors and hair ties, as well as partially eaten fruit, reports Ouest France.
#LoÚltimo | Thanks to the guidance of Nuestro Canino Ulises, the Fuerzas Especiales found an improvised shelter and elements that Darían showed to the Rastro of the Menores lost in the Cessna 206 plane crash. pic.twitter.com/dxTPbZqkPA
— Fuerzas Militares de Colombia (@FuerzasMilCol) May 17, 2023
They found one the next day “makeshift shelter of sticks and branches”. Finally, footprints were uncovered during the search on Thursday. Given all of this evidence, investigators remain hopeful of finding at least one child.
#LoÚltimo | There #OperationEsperanza Continuation. Our particular princes, with more than 100 men deployed in this humanitarian mission, meet people who take care that most of the pararecidos take place in the Selva del Serían #Caqueta. #ProtegemosLaVida pic.twitter.com/CthiFCzNZ1
— Fuerzas Militares de Colombia (@FuerzasMilCol) May 18, 2023
More than 100 soldiers are therefore mobilized, including dog teams, indicates southwest. Three helicopters take turns to provide support, broadcasting “cover an area of about 1,500 meters” over loudspeakers, a message recorded by the children’s grandmother in her Uitoto dialect.
At night, an army plane fires flares and ground troops move through the jungle with night vision goggles “so that Operation Esperanza can continue its operations around the clock.”