The families of the missing children are asking that the search not be relaxed

A family with four children has been missing for 21 days after a plane crash in the south Colombia He asked that the search continue and not stop until they are found.

“We ask you to continue to cooperate with us, not to give up until they find them,” the children’s grandfather told EFE. Fidencio Valencia.

Valencia with other members of his family in Villavicencio, the capital of the department of Meta (center), where they transferred the body of their daughter and the children’s mother, Magdalena Mukutuy, who they pulled out along with two other adults (native leader Hermán Mendoza and airplane pilot Hernando Murcia) inside the crashed plane last May 1.

The family is grateful for the efforts of both of them The government and the army as indigenous communities to find Lesly Mukutuy, 11 years; Soleiny Mukutuy, 9 years old; Tien Noriel Ronoque Mukutuy, 4 years old, and 11-month-old baby Cristin Neruman Ranoque.

And he asks that they cooperate with air and river transport so that people from the Araracuara indigenous reserve, where the aircraft took off and where this indigenous family lives, can participate in the search, as one of the parents of four minors is already doing. .

MAIDEN VOYAGE

Airplane Cessna 206 crashed in the middle of a leafy part of the virgin Caquetá jungle, when he was traveling on the route from Araracuara and San Jose del Guaviare.

It was the first flight the family took to visit the father of two children. “He called him to fly in those Araracuara devices,” explained the grandfather, who describes the juveniles as “very affectionate.”

Araracuara is a “large reserve” inhabited by several communities between the departments of Caquetá and Guaviare, and in fact the only way to get out of there is by plane.

Previously, the family had to take a boat and walk a “terrible, horrible road” from the community of Uitoto in Chuquí to where the dirt track is where the private airline Avianline Charter plane took off.

The authorities, led by fmilitary forces and civil aeronauticsThey are constantly searching for the juveniles across the vast jungle area and have intensified their work by air, land and river in recent days, with more than a hundred troops who will be joined from today by more than fifty indigenous people from various communities who know the area well, especially the Nukake, an ethnic group who lives in the jungles of Guaviare.