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Colombia children found alive in Amazon jungle 40 days after plane crash (www.france24.com)

submitted 1 year ago by jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de to c/news@beehaw.org

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Four Indigenous children who had been missing for more than a month in the Colombian Amazon rainforest after a small plane crash have been found alive, President Gustavo Petro said Friday.

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[–] csolisr@social.azkware.net 16 points 1 year ago

An absolute miracle of a story, and strap your seatbelts because it's a long one! Especially the fact that their mom died in an air crash, and because of that the duty was on the older sister, who was just 12, to take care of her siblings (one of them just a year old) in the middle of an extremely dense and dangerous jungle. For over a month, mind you. Them surviving with just some dehydration and mosquito bites is nothing short of heroic.