The brothers disappeared in the jungle after a plane crash in Colombia are found alive

The four brothers lost in the Guaviare jungle, in Colombia, after the plane crash appeared alive at dawn this Friday, as confirmed by Colombian military sources to national media and later confirmed by Colombian President Gustavo Petro. "A joy for the whole country! The four children who were lost 40 days ago in the Colombian jungle appeared alive," he announced in his ditch in Twitter.

The minors between the ages of eleven months and thirteen years disappeared on May 1st during a plane crash in which they were traveling with their mother and two other adults, who lost their lives, between the departments of Guaviare and Caquetá.

According to the first information from the local authorities, they have survived alone in the jungle for 40 days and present a state of dehydration after walking hundreds of kilometers, although there is no fear for the lives of any of them; They also have quite a few insect bites all over their bodies. The children were found far from the crashed plane and they were transferred to a San José del Guaviare hospital and, later, they will be taken to Bogotá to be evaluated by medical personnel. There the grandmother and father, who participated to a large extent in the search, await them.

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More than one hundred soldiers from the Armed Forces and units of the Colombian Air Force, the Aerocivil SAR group and members of the National Organization of Indigenous Peoples of the Colombian Amazon (OPIAC), among others, including the father of the little ones, have participated in this operation called Operation Hopethat in these six weeks of In the search, various evidence of survival was found, such as the one-year-old baby's bottle, traces of food, and an open suitcase from which the little ones were taken from some personal items or from the discovery of the plane that crashed on May 16.

For the moment, the Civil Aeronautics reported that a team of experts from the Accident Investigation Directorate undertook the investigations to determine the causes of the accident, although according to several national media they point to a possible mechanical failure in the aircraft.

In all this operation, those who have played a fundamental role have been Wilson and Ulises. Two tracking dogs and intervention of the rescue unit of the Armed Forces, which carried out the search work, found the whereabouts of the four brothers.