Four children reported to have been found in Amazon 17 days after plane crash

Three children and a baby were reported to have been found alive more than two weeks after a plane crashed with them on board in the Colombian Amazon jungle.

Colombian authorities had deployed more than 100 soldiers with sniffer dogs to search for the children who were travelling in an aeroplane that crashed in the Amazon 17 days ago, killing three adults.

On Monday and Tuesday, soldiers found the bodies of the pilot and two adults who had been flying from a jungle location to San Jose del Guaviare, one of the main cities in Colombia’s Amazon rainforest. The region has few roads and is also difficult to access by river, so transport by small aeroplane is common.

One of the dead passengers, Ranoque Mucutuy, was the mother of the four children, who are of the Huitoto ethnicity.

(Aljazeera)