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Mother would have lived for days

According to the father of two of the rescued children, the mother, who was also on board the crashed plane, was alive in the Colombian jungle for four days after the plane crashed. His daughter told him this, Manuel Ranoque told reporters on Sunday, as reported by the Guardian.

According to Ranoque, the mother told the children before she died that it might be better if they left. The children couldn’t have told him much more. “It’s not easy to ask her,” says Ranoque. They are very exhausted after 40 days without proper food and sleep.

The four children, ages 13, nine, and four years and eleven months, originally traveled over the Amazon in a propeller plane. The pilot of the machine reported an engine failure on May 1 and the plane crashed. On May 16, a rescue team found the plane in the inaccessible rainforest, along with the bodies of the three adults aboard. There was no trace of the children, so the Colombian authorities launched a large-scale search involving about 150 soldiers. Finally, last Friday, the four children were found alive after 40 days in the jungle.

Children ate cassava flour and fruit

The children’s great-uncle, Fidencio Valencia, also shared more details with the media about how they managed to survive. So they first fed on farina, cassava flour and ate fruits from the rainforest. As members of an indigenous community, the children had knowledge of the plants and fruits of the jungle.

“After the farina was gone, they started eating seeds,” the uncle continued. Especially the eldest daughter, Lesly, already knew a lot about life in the rainforest and protected and nurtured her younger siblings.

Long search puzzles

The exact circumstances of the search continue to raise questions. Especially why the children were only found after such a long time remains a mystery. Army General Pedro Sanchez, who led the search, said the children were found just three miles from the crash site. Rescue teams came to within 20 meters of the site several times, but the children were overlooked.

On the one hand, this could be due to the fact that the already very weak children were not able to draw attention to themselves. On the other hand, it is also possible that the children got scared and hid from the sniffer dogs and the uniformed troops.

This could be related to the fact that Father Manuel Ranoque is being threatened by a splinter group of the Colombian guerrilla organization FARC. Ranoque told the media on Sunday: “The Carolina Ramírez front is looking for me to kill. There are threats against me, I am a target for them. They have economic interests and if you don’t do what they say you’re their enemy.”

The Carolina Ramírez Front is a splinter group of the Farc rebel group, which does not support the peace agreement signed in 2016. She is involved in drug trafficking and is said to have killed four minors in the south of the country.

According to Alicia Méndez, a journalist from the largest Colombian daily newspaper “El Tiempo”, the children feared that they would be found by the wrong search team.

The role of rescue dog Wilson

The role of search dog Wilson provides a nicer aspect of the story: the German Shepherd is apparently largely due to the fact that the children have finally been found. The eldest daughter Lesly confirmed to El Tiempo journalist Méndez that the four survivors in the rainforest were sometimes accompanied by a dog before it disappeared back into the jungle.

It is believed to be Wilson. This was rather a rescue dog with the searchers and ran away. Rescuers believe Wilson deliberately left trails that eventually led to the children. Since the dog has continued to disappear, the Colombian military is still searching for the animal rescuer, according to a post on Twitter. (con)