Youngsters reunited with household after surviving 40 days within the Amazon
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our kids who had been discovered alive 40 days after their gentle plane crashed within the Amazon jungle have been reunited with their kinfolk.
The siblings – Lesly, 13, Soleiny, 9, Tien Noriel, 4, and child Cristin, who had simply had his first birthday – needed to fend for themselves after their mum and the pilots died within the accident in a distant a part of Colombia.
The youngsters have been reunited with kinfolk as they get better in hospital.
Their grandfather Fidencio Valencia mentioned they’re “very weak” however “happy to see their family”.
A gaggle of troopers and volunteers posing with the kids, who had been wrapped in thermal blankets
/ Colombian Presidency/AFP by way of GetTheir grandmother, Fatima Valencia, mentioned their mom Lesly was used to taking care of them and that helped them survive: “She gave them flour and cassava bread, any fruit in the bush, they know what they must consume.”
The aircraft was discovered on May 16 however the youngsters, from the Huitoto indigenous group, saved on the transfer, eluding searchers.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro mentioned their rescue was “a joy for the whole country”.
He added: “The jungle saved them. They are children of the jungle. Now they are also children of Colombia.”
Colombia’s Defence Minister Ivan Velasquez, who visited them within the hospital with President Gustavo Petro on Saturday, praised Lesly for taking good care of her youthful siblings.
“It is thanks to her, her value and her leadership, that the three others were able to survive, with her care, her knowledge of the jungle,” Mr Velasquez said.
“In general the children, the boy and the girls are in an acceptable state, according to the medical reports they are out of danger.”