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Little brothers rescued after 40 days to be flown to Bogotá by helicopter – Portal
“The older girl, Lesly, ran to me with her younger sister close by. “Hungry, we’re hungry,” he whispered to me. Nicolas Ordonez Gomes – one of the members of the rescue team who, after a 40-day search, found the children lost in the impenetrable Colombian jungle – his face is emaciated and deeply lined with fatigue. As he talks about the find, the wrinkles smooth out and his face shows a mixture of joy and pain: “I asked where the other brother was. He wasn’t far: After petting him for the first time and giving him something to eat, he got up and said to me, fully aware of what he was saying: “My mother is dead.” Lesly (13 years old), Soleiny (9 years old), Tien Noriel (5 years old) and Cristin (1 year old) survived 40 days in a “dense, pristine, dangerous” forest. They survived the crash of the Cessna they are traveling in. They survived the death of their mother Magdalena, which occurred four days after the accident: before the woman died, the woman pushed the children away, as the eldest said of them. They have survived the onslaught of hunger, the scourge of insects, and the perils of the jungle. They survived thanks to “ancestral knowledge” and used a handful of items salvaged after the crash: a mosquito net, a towel, camping gear, two cell phones (their batteries died quickly), a flashlight and a small music box.
One of the children who survived the crash of the Cessna they were traveling in holds a balloon – Portal
They survived – said the rescuers – thanks to “three kilos of cassava flour”, commonly used by indigenous tribes in the Amazon. “They had three kilos of it and ate it for days,” reconstructed Brigadier General Pedro Sanchez, commander of the Joint Command for Special Operations. “When we found them, they were malnourished but fully conscious and clear-headed,” said the rescuers, who captured the moment they found the children in two short videos and transported them by helicopter to the capital, Bogotá. The little brothers are now in a room at the military hospital in Bogota, where they were flown the night of the rescue. Here they are gradually rehydrated and fed. At the hospital, the children explained to their grandfather, Fidencio Valencia, and one of their uncles, Dairo Juvenal Mucutuy, that when they heard the soldiers, they ran away out of fear and hid. “Among the recorded voices” of the grandmother that were distributed to lure them, “the dogs, the people who were screaming, got scared and hid in the logs.” They did: they ran away,” said grandfather Fidencio im TV Noticias Caracol.
The family was fleeing dissidents from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. Magdalena and her four children had boarded the Cessna to return to her husband, a relative of the governor of the Puerto Sabalo Indian Reservation, who left the country in April after receiving death threats from the Carolina Ramírez Front. The criminals are accused, among other things, of massacring four indigenous youths in the Putumayo area on May 17 last year. “They are looking for me to kill me. I am a target,” said the man who, without ever losing hope, took part in the search for his children.
Since the discovery, Colombia has been celebrating. And he applauds the rescuers who embark on an arduous and sometimes desperate search. “Every day we started at 5 a.m. And every day that started, we said to ourselves: Today we will find her,” said one member of the team. andMy only regret is that Wilson, the dog who was instrumental in finding the children, has disappeared. It seems to be missing. He hunted, sniffed tracks, ran through the forest for days. Tireless and generous. The name and photos of this six-year-old Belgian Malinois are now in storefronts in Bogotá.