Incredible Rescue In Amazon Jungle, 4 Children Survived 40 Days Alone

Damaris Mucutuy, an aunt of the four children who survived 40 days in the Amazon Jungle alone, told a radio station that the children were fine and later had an incredible rescue after a military sniffer dog found them.

Colombia's first lady, Veronica Alcocer (left), and Sofia Petro (right), the daughter of President Gustavo Petro, visit one of the four children in hospital. Photograph: Prensa Presidencial/Colombian Presidency/AFP/Getty Images

The four young Colombian siblings who managed to survive for 40 days in the Amazon jungle after their plane crashed have been reunited with their family as further details emerged of their astonishing feat of endurance.

The children’s grandfather, Fidencio Valencia, who visited them in the Bogotá hospital where they are recuperating, said they were “shattered but in good hands and it’s great they’re alive”.

“We were in the darkness, but now dawn has broken and I have seen the light,” he said.

Damaris Mucutuy, an aunt, told a radio...

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