Colombian President Gustavo Petro declared "joy for the country" after the four indigenous children were found alive two weeks after their plane crashed in the dense Amazon jungle in Caqueta province.
EDnews informs via DW that four children, including an 11-month-old baby, from an indigenous community in Colombia survived a plane crash that occurred more than two weeks ago and were found alive, President Gustavo Petro said on Wednesday.
Declaring "joy for the country," Petro wrote on Twitter that the children were found after "arduous search efforts" by the military.
Early in the morning of May 1, the plane carrying seven people between Araracuara, in Amazonas province, and San Jose del Guaviare, a city in Guaviare province, had suffered an engine failure.