The 13-year-old, the 9-year-old, the 4-year-old and the 11-month-old baby were alone in the jungle for almost six weeks. The sibling group of four were found alive on Friday after the small plane they were on crashed in the Amazon on 1 May. – This is God’s miracle, says his father Manuel Ranoque to the press in the capital Bogota yesterday. Manuel Ranoque is the father of two of the children in the sibling group of four. He hopes the children recover quickly after spending almost six weeks alone in the jungle. Photo: AP Photo/Ivan Valencia / AFP The mother was alive The children are hospitalized after a rescue helicopter flew them out of the jungle on Saturday. – The first thing I did was talk to the 13-year-old girl. It is not so easy to ask them about things because the children have not slept or eaten properly for 40 days. I haven’t been able to talk to them properly. I hope they get caught, says the father, adding that the children themselves will come to tell their stories. The four siblings survived because they had knowledge of how to survive in the jungle. They were found by a search team made up of people from the indigenous population and the military. Photo: The Colombian government / AFP / Reuters He believes the mother told the children to leave her and the plane wreckage in order to survive. – The only thing she has told me is that the mother was alive for four days. Before she died, she possibly said: go!, says Manuel Ranoque. In addition, the pilot and a local indigenous leader have been found dead after the plane crash. Ate flour from the root vegetable cassava The children were found five kilometers from the plane wreckage. They had taken three kilos of flour from the root vegetable cassava that they had eaten, says spokesman Pedro Arnulfo Sánchez Suárez. It helped them stay alive. The flour is widely eaten by indigenous groups in the Amazon region. It ended tragically for the small Cessna C206 aircraft in the state of Caquetá in Colombia on 1 May. While the four children survived the crash, the mother, the pilot and an indigenous leader died on board. Photo: The Colombian Defense Forces / AP / AFP – When they finally ran out of food, they decided to find a place where they could stay alive, says Suárez. – They were malnourished, but alert, awake and ready when we found them, he continues. Colombia’s Defense Minister Ivan Velasquez told the press on Sunday that the children are dehydrated and still cannot eat normal food, but they are out of danger. The baby bottle of the youngest of the siblings, an 11-month-old baby, was found in the jungle by search crews. Photo: AFP PHOTO / The Colombian Armed Forces / AFP Had knowledge of the jungle The fact that the children belonged to an indigenous group gave them a certain immunity to diseases in the jungle, according to spokesman Pedro Arnulfo Sánchez Suárez. The children had knowledge of what you can – and cannot – eat in the jungle. It was the 13-year-old who took on the responsibility and kept the younger siblings alive, he continued. In a sack she had packed a flashlight, mosquito net, mobile phones, drinks and food, reports the Colombian newspaper El Espectador. In addition, they managed to find water, which would not have been possible if they had not had knowledge of the difficult conditions in the jungle. The children survived forty days in the jungle. The children were transported by air ambulance to a hospital in the capital Bogota on Saturday. Photo: Colombian Air Force / Reuters Heard babies crying – They were very weak, but we managed to find them because we heard the smallest one crying, Lucho Acosta, coordinator of the indigenous search team told CNN. According to Nicolás Ordóñez of the Murui indigenous group, the children were holding hands when they were found. He was the one who found them first. The 13-year-old gave him a hug, while she held the 9-year-old’s hand and had the one-year-old on her arm. The 4-year-old had difficulty standing upright and was lying on the ground next to him. – I told them that we are family and that we came on behalf of their father, grandfather and aunts, said Nicolás Ordóñez, Colombian RTVC reports. The search operation was carried out by more than 100 soldiers as well as 70 people from the indigenous population. While the search was going on, over 100 survival packs of water and food were dropped into the jungle from the air for the children to find. – We, as an indigenous group, have the knowledge to search for them. We have shown the world that we found the plane and that we have shown the world that we found the children, says the father Manuel Ranoque. Found by rescue dog The children have told the rescue staff that at one point they were found by a Belgian sheepdog called Wilson. The dog, which is the military’s rescue dog, spent three or four days with the children. The dog has since disappeared and is still missing, according to Colombian President Gustavo Petro. The president visited the children in the hospital on Saturday. The story of the children who survived has touched the whole world. The Colombian artist Shakira wrote on Twitter on Saturday that she thanks everyone involved in the rescue operation.
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