First video published: here the rescuers encounter the missing children

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“I’m hungry” and “My mother is dead”: these were the first words of the four missing children who survived a plane crash in the Colombian jungle for 40 days and were rescued on Friday. Colombian television released moving video footage of rescuers encountering the children on Sunday, giving the successful rescuers a chance to speak.

The video, shot with a mobile phone, shows the exhausted children, the youngest in the arms of a relief worker. The children between the ages of one and thirteen look starving. Their rescuers, indigenous members of the quest, sing, celebrate, and smoke a tobacco sacred to many jungle inhabitants.

“I want bread and sausage”

“The eldest girl, Lesly, came running to me with the little one in her arms. I took her in my arms. She said: I’m hungry », Nicolas Ordonez Gomes described the first moments of the meeting in the jungle in an interview with the public broadcaster RTVC. “One of the two boys was lying on the floor. He got up and said to me, ‘My mother is dead.'”

The rescuers would have spoken well to him and told him “that we are friends, sent by the family, the father, the uncle. That we are family,” said Ordonez Gomes. The boy only replied: “I want bread and sausage.”

Another rescuer reported that the team found a turtle half an hour before they discovered the children. “According to the belief of our ancestors, if you find a turtle, you can make a wish and your wish will be granted.” He said to the tortoise, ‘Find the children.’»

Mother was alive after the crash

On May 1, a small plane carrying the children, their mother and two other adults on board crashed over the Amazon rainforest in southern Colombia. The adults died in the crash, the children miraculously survived. The machine and the bodies of the adults were discovered two weeks after the crash. Since then, teams from the army and indigenous people have been searching for the children, supported by sniffer dogs.

They were found in the jungle on Friday after weeks of searching and then taken to Bogotá by helicopter and plane. There, the children continue to recover in a military hospital – shielded from the public and the media. According to their relatives, they speak “little”. However, they said their mother lived four days after the plane crash before succumbing to her injuries, her father Manuel Miller told Ranoque Morales. (AFP)

Source: Blick