When the four children saw the rescue team in the middle of the Amazon jungle, they immediately said they were hungry and wanted to eat bread and sausages.
Colombian television on June 11 broadcast images of the moment four children who survived a plane crash in the Amazon rainforest met rescuers. All four children looked emaciated after a long time of survival in the wild.
In an interview with RTVC television channel, the rescue team recounted the first moments of the encounter.
Rescuers care for one of four children after finding them in the Amazon rainforest on June 9. Photo: AFP
"The eldest girl, Lesly, ran towards me with her younger brother in her arms and said, 'I'm hungry,'" said Nicolas Ordonez Gomes, a member of the search team. "One of the boys was lying on the ground. He stood up and told me, 'My mother is dead.'"
"We immediately responded with positive words, saying that we were friends, that we were sent by your family, your father, your uncle, that we are family!", Ordonez Gomes added.
However, the boy only said "I want bread and sausage".
Another rescuer explained the belief among indigenous tribes that if you find a turtle, you can ask it for a wish and it will come true. He said the search team had actually seen a turtle in the forest, just half an hour before finding the four children.
"I told him to help us find the kids," he said.
After more than 40 days in the jungle, Colombian rescuers announced on June 9 that they had found four Huitoto indigenous children who survived a plane crash on May 1. They were taken to a hospital in the capital Bogota in a very weak condition and are expected to stay there for at least two weeks.
The children are believed to have used survival skills learned from their grandmother's game to survive the day, waiting for rescuers.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro called the incident a "miraculous lesson in survival" and said he believed the story would "go down in history". "The forest saved them," he said. "They were children of the forest and now they are children of Colombia."
Vu Hoang (According to AFP )
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