Child survivors in Colombia: images of the rescue broadcast by public television

by time news

2023-06-12 00:13:30

Colombian public television broadcast a video of the moment of the meeting between the four children wandering in the jungle for 40 days and their native rescuers.

In these moving images, filmed on a mobile phone, we see the four haggard children, the smallest in the arms of one of her rescuers. All are terribly emaciated. their saviorsmembers of the native guard, sing, smoke tobacco (a sacred plant among the natives) and give thanks with joy.

“I’m hungry”, “My mom is dead”

Invited to the set of RTVC, the Colombian public television, this same indigenous team which found the children in the jungle recounted the first moments of the meeting.

“The eldest daughter, Lesly, with the little one in her arms, ran towards me. Lesly said: I’m hungry,” said Nicolas Ordonez Gomes, one of the team members. “One of the two boys was lying down. He stood up and said to me: my mom died ».

“We immediately followed up with positive words, saying that we were friends, that we came from the family, from the father, from the uncle. That we were family! “, detailed Mr. Ordonez Gomes.

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