The four siblings survived a small plane crash on 1 May that took the lives of the pilot, their mother and a third adult. Lost for 40 days in the Colombian Amazon, four Indigenous children survived eating seeds, roots and plants they knew were edible thanks to their upbringing
For many, the children s survival was indeed a miracle after so many days when the country was resigning to accept that the children had died or were under the control of dissident FARC groups. Instead, they were alive.
Four Colombia children from an Indigenous community were found alive in the country's south Friday over five weeks after the plane they were traveling in crashed in the Amazon jungle.