Details of woman’s final days emerge after four siblings rescued following almost six weeks in Amazon jungle
The mother of the four young Colombian siblings who managed to survive for almost six weeks in the Amazon jungle clung to life for four days after their plane crashed before telling her children to leave her in the hope of improving their chances of being rescued.
A military sniffer dog found the siblings, who are members of the Huitoto Indigenous community, on Friday after they had spent more than a month in an area where snakes, mosquitoes and other animals abound., or cassava flour, and by using their knowledge of the rainforest’s fruits.[from the wreckage], and with that they survived,” he told reporters outside the hospital, where they are expected to remain for a minimum of two weeks.ran out, they began to eat seeds,” Valencia added.
Sensing they could be alive, Colombia’s army stepped up the hunt and flew 150 soldiers with dogs into the area, where mist and thick foliage greatly limited visibility. Dozens of Indigenous volunteers also joined the search. “The minor children were already very weak,” Sánchez said. “They were only strong enough to breathe or reach a small fruit to feed themselves or drink a drop of water in the jungle,” he said.
. “Every time [the search team] was close, they hid. We don’t know what was going through their little heads.”
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