06/13/2023 10:41 am (act. 06/13/2023 10:41 am)
Search dog “Wilson” finds children and is now missing ©APA/Colombian Army
After being rescued after 40 days alone in the Colombian jungle, four siblings Cristin, Tien Noriel, Soleiny and Lesly are apparently recovering well. The indigenous children, aged one, five, nine and 13, are “in a very good mood, they painted and drew,” said Adriana Velasquez, deputy head of welfare for the Colombian ICBF family, in a video sent to the media on Monday. fair.
“They like to talk” and are “in a very good mood,” Velasquez said of the brothers, who are currently hospitalized in a military hospital in the Colombian capital, Bogotá. ICBF chief Astrid Caceres told W Radio that 13-year-old Lesly and nine-year-old Soleiny had a fever on Monday, and their five-year-old brother Tien Noriel was being watched for possible intoxication. to feed.
Cristin, who completed a year in the jungle, continues to receive intensive care, explained Cáceres. However, this is not happening because of a worrying health condition, but because she is still so small. The children were able to sleep again, “which helped them a lot,” Cáceres said. Their recovery is going according to plan, with the brothers expected to be in the hospital for two to three weeks.
The Colombian army released a photo drawn by the sons of the Wilson search dog. The animal has disappeared since the difficult search operation in the Colombian Amazon jungle.
“The dog was with them, it came and went,” said the children’s grandfather, Narciso Mucutuy, in a video distributed by the Ministry of Defense. Eventually, Wilson disappeared. The army has launched a search for the six-year-old Belgian Shepherd.
On May 1st, a small plane crashed in the Amazon rainforest. The pilot and an indigenous leader died in the accident, and the mother of four children died four days after the accident.
The children struggled alone in the dangerous jungle for weeks, living on 1.5 kilos of cassava flour they found in the plane wreckage and plants growing in the jungle. However, they suffered terribly from hunger and became very thin. A search party finally found the brothers on Friday.
The ICBF has taken over custody of the children pending a custody dispute over them. His late mother’s relatives accuse the father of the two youngest children of mistreating them. The father denies the allegations. The maternal grandmother, Fátima Valencia, announced to the AFP news agency that she would seek custody of the four children.