Indigenous children have been rescued in the Colombian Amazon jungle after missing for 40 days after a plane crash They waited near the plane for four days for help. But when they saw that he was not arriving, they set out and tried to get out of there. revealed one of his grandparents.
“They stayed around the plane for four days, waiting to see if someone could come and pick them up,” he said. Narciso MucutuyThe minors’ grandfather, who added that they had started walking “paths towards the mountains” since no one had found them.
In statements from the Colombian Defense Ministry, Mucutuy assured that he had been told this by Lesly, the eldest of the four children, who had also told him this After getting off the plane, they wandered aimlessly, leaving clues every night in the places where they slept in case anyone is looking for it.
Lesly, 13 years old, was hailed as the heroine of this story about human progress because it was she who, with her knowledge of the jungle, was responsible for caring for her brothers for 40 days Soleiny Mucutuy, 9; Tien Noriel Ranoque Mucutuy, five years old, and Cristin Neruman Ranoque, a one-year-old baby.
The minor also told her grandfather that they survived the first few days in the jungle on farina, a flour made from cassava, a traditional food of the country’s indigenous people Amazon.
His mother ‘lived four days’
After the accident and the fact that the rescue didn’t arriveLesly took the Farina out of the suitcase, one of the three adults who were traveling with them on the Cessna 206 plane and died in the May 1 incident in the jungle between the departments of Caquetá and Guaviare, the grandfather told the Central Military Hospital (HMC) in Bogotawhere children relax.
The three adults who died in the accident were the children’s mother, the pilot and a local indigenous leader.
According to Manuel Ranoque, father of the two minor children, Lesly told her that her mother “was alive four days” and before she died she told them to “go away” and seek help.
The four minors were found on Friday in a remote part of the jungle where around 200 soldiers, including commandos, had been searching tirelessly for weeks Army special forcesand indigenous people from the region, all integrated into “Operation Hope”.
After the rescue, they were ferried by a Colombian Air Force (FAC) helicopter to San José del Guaviare, the capital of Guaviare, where they were picked up by a C-295 aircraft configured as an ambulance and taken to Bogotá.
baby care
The grandfather told that Lesly got the one-year-old baby to give up the bottle because “I gave it a little bit until it was over‘, after which he began to give him only water.
“When they were found, (Lesly) says they were already found couldn’t walk. I was already very tired, very tired. So they crowded into one place and sat down. She had the little girl between her legs when they found her.said Mucutuy.
While details remain on how the children survived 40 days in the jungle, the Colombian Institute for Family Welfare (ICBF) will retain their custody until a solution is found the family problems between the maternal grandparents and Manuel Ranoque, father of two of them, who asked on Sunday to be allowed to live with the four minors in Bogotá.