2023-06-10 10:00:26
Although the feat has been very complicated, the miracle has been performed and now they have been The 4 minors who were traveling in a plane were found alivealong with his mother, an adult and the pilot, who crashed in the Amazon jungle on May 1.
The four protagonists of this miraculous story of survival are the brothers Lesly Jacobo Mucutuy, 13 years old; Soleiny Mucutuy, 9; Tien Noriel Ronoque Mucutuy, 4, and one-year-old baby Cristin Neriman Ranoque Mucutuy.
Alone, after the three adults who were traveling with them lost their lives in the plane crash, They have survived in the jungle for 40 days., while 200 soldiers from the Colombian Army Special Forces, helped by several indigenous people from the tribes who knew the jungle, searched tirelessly for them. A search within the framework of the so-called “Operation Hope” that this Friday has borne fruit.
Emaciated and malnourished but alive
After 5 in the afternoon the four children have been located in a remote point between the departments of Caquetá and Guaviare that had already been traced. Right there the children were treated by combat medics from the Special Operations Command deployed in the area and at night, they have been transferred by helicopter to the military base of San José del Guaviare, capital of Guaviare, where “they have been stabilized.” As confirmed by the Colombian Defense Minister, Iván Velásquez, who has advanced that this Saturday, as far as possible, the little ones will be transferred to the Military Hospital of Bogotá so that they continue there with their recovery.
It didn’t take long for the first images of the rescue to be published, in which the minors are seen with their emaciated and malnourished rescuers, but in good health considering that they have spent 40 days without food and avoiding the dangers of the jungle. In this sense, Velásquez has confirmed that the children received some of the hundreds of food packages that were dropped for days from the helicopters.
Petro celebrates the news
As soon as the Colombian president heard the news, Gustavo Petrohas rushed to celebrate the finding of children that already advanced being false at the start of your search. “A joy for the whole country! The 4 children who were lost 40 days ago in the Colombian jungle appeared alive,” the Colombian leader has now written, who as soon as he got off the presidential plane from Havana, where this Friday was signed a temporary bilateral ceasefire agreement with the ELN, has described the rescue as “a gift to life.”
A joy for the whole country! The 4 children who were lost 40 days ago in the Colombian jungle appeared alive. pic.twitter.com/cvADdLbCpm
— Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) June 9, 2023
But not only the Colombian president has celebrated the news, he has the whole country that was pending the details of this search which has finally ended with the miraculous rescue of the children safe and sound.
The Command of the Military Forces itself has highlighted that “the union of efforts made this joy possible for Colombia” thanking the work of each one of the members of this operation, while the former president of the country alvaro uribe He has conveyed that the discovery of the children has been a great relief for the country.
Great relief for the Homeland the discovery of the children. And to be able to overcome the anguish of solidarity that was in the hearts of all Colombian families.
— Álvaro Uribe Vélez (@AlvaroUribeVel) June 10, 2023
A whole survival exercise
Definitely The resistance of the four children has also been valued given that they are the protagonists of a whole survival exercise. The four were traveling with the three deceased adults in a Cessna 206 plane operated by the Avianline Charter’s company that crashed on May 1 after an engine failure, as the pilot reported minutes before the incident.
accident after which a gigantic search operation was launched of children that has led soldiers and indigenous people to walk thousands of square kilometers of jungle, helped from the sky by helicopters and planes.
An operation in which the rescue dog Wilson has been key that has not yet been found but that marked the clues to reach the minors.
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