This is how the youngsters Soleiny, Tien, Lesly and Cristin survived 40 days within the jungle

The 4 youngsters rescued within the Colombian jungle, Lesly Jacobombaire Mucutuy, 13, Soleiny Jacobombaire Mucutuy, 9, Tien Noriel Ronoque Mucutuy, 4, and Cristin Neriman Ranoque Mucutuy, who accomplished his first 12 months of life within the jungle, have They have been transferred to a hospital in Bogotá and are in a positive state of well being, regardless of dehydration and bug bites.

This is how the 40 days of combating for the survival of 4 brothers ended, which started on May 1, after they have been flying in a small aircraft between Aracuara and San José de Guaviare, within the southeast and middle of the nation, along with their mom, Magdalena Mucutuy. Valencia, the Witoto chief of the National Organization of the Peoples of the Colombian Amazon, Herman Mendoza Hernández, and the pilot, Hernán Murcia. After an engine failure, the aircraft fell, the three adults died and the 4 minors have been left alone going through the risks of the most important jungle on this planet.

The youngsters survived because of survival kits that have been dropped from helicopters by the Colombian Institute for Family Welfare, in line with the Colombian authorities, which, in line with native radio station Caracol, contained water, sandwiches, cookies, serums, a encendador and fariña, an ancestral meals of the indigenous communities of the Amazon jungle, made out of cassava.

These survival kits, along with feeding the 4 youngsters, have allowed the greater than 100 brokers of the rescue groups of the ‘Hope’ operation to patrol the jungle inch by inch following some traces that the lacking brothers had left within the jungle. to lastly discover them.

Members of the Colombian Military Forces feed youngsters in the course of the rescueFuerzas Militares de Colombia

A brand new life in Bogota

The household, of the Witoto ethnic group, a folks native to the jungles of Peru and Colombia that presently has some 9,000 communities, lived in Puerto Sábalo, the place the daddy, Manuel Roque, was governor of this indigenous reservation that may solely be reached entry by aircraft or boat. Roque had disappeared, leaving his household behind till a while later he contacted his spouse to ask her to satisfy him as quickly as attainable and clarify the explanation for his flight: he was threatened by some guerrillas.

Thus, Magdalena, searching for a brand new life along with her husband in Bogotá, boarded that aircraft, flown by a former taxi driver, alongside along with her 4 youngsters and Herman, the indigenous chief, who, apparently, had determined to accompany them out of concern. to your security.

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