Colombia: The mother of the children who were involved in the accident survived for 4 days

the mother of Surviving are four children She spent 40 days wandering the jungle in Colombia and survived a plane crash for four days, her husband said Sunday. “My daughter told me her mother had been alive for four days,” Manuel Miller Ranoc Morales told reporters outside the Bogota military hospital where the children were cared for.

Leslie (13), Solini (9), Tien Noriel (5) and Christine (1), four Uyototo tribal children, were found alive by rescue teams on Friday afternoon after wandering alone in the forest since the accident on May 1. They were traveling in a Cessna 206 with their mother, pilot and cousin. All three adults died in the accident. “Before she died, the mother said to them, ‘Go ahead, go! Perhaps you will see who your father is, as I have shown you, you will know what a father’s love is,'” explained Manuel Miller Roanoke Morales.

They fled the FARC

On the morning of May 1st, a small plane, a Cessna 206 belonging to Avianline Charters, took off from a jungle called Ararraguara, bound for San José del Guerrier (south), one of the main cities of the Colombian Amazon. .

Minutes after the plane took off for a journey of about 350 kilometers through the jungle, the captain reported engine trouble. Then the plane disappeared from the radar. Between May 15 and 16, soldiers found him in the south of the Caqueta sector. The plane was vertical, nose on the ground, in the midst of dense vegetation.

The pilot was found dead in the cockpit. The native chief and the mother of the family were found dead, and the soldiers did not say exactly where. According to information released by the authorities, the children flew with their mother to escape FARC dissent that rejects a historic peace deal signed with the Marxist guerrillas in 2016.

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