Magdalena Mucutuy, the mother of four children who had been rescued after 40 days in the Amazon jungle, told her children to leave and get help as she lay dying.
Manuel Ranoque, the children’s father, told reporters that his eldest daughter informed him that their mother told them to “get out” and save themselves.
On Friday, the siblings—13, 9, 5, and 1—were rescued from the jungle and transported by air to a military hospital in Bogota, the nation’s capital.
“The one thing that [13-year-old Lesly] has cleared up for me is that, as a matter of fact, her mom was alive for four days,” Mr Ranoque told correspondents outside the emergency clinic.
“Their mother told them something like, “You guys get out of here,” before she passed away. He added, “You guys are going to see the kind of man your dad is, and he’s going to show you the same kind of great love that I have shown you.” More and more details have surfaced regarding the children’s time in the jungle and their miraculous rescue, including the very first things the children said when they were discovered.
Nicolás Ordóez Gomes, a rescue worker, recalled the moment they found the children. Lesly, the oldest daughter, ran toward me with the infant in her arms. Lesly stated, I’m ravenous,'” he told public transmission channel RTVC.”One of the two young men was resting. He stood up and addressed me, ” My mother has died.'” “Positive words, saying that we were friends, that we were sent by the family,” he said, of the rescuers’ response. The boy, according to Mr. Ordóez, replied, I’d like some sausage and bread.
The grandfather of the Huitoto indigenous children told Colombian media that the children’s survival depended on their ability to identify edible fruit and seeds.
The oldest kid, 13-year-old Lesly, has been credited with keeping her kin alive.
Henry Guerrero, a native man who was essential for the group which at last found the youngsters, said they figured out how to construct a little haven. “They had made a little tent from a covering and put a towel on the ground. They generally remained close to the stream and she [Lesly] conveyed a little soft drink bottle which she used to [fill with and] convey water. “The four siblings appeared to be weak from the weeks they spent fending for themselves in the wilderness, as evidenced by footage of their rescue that was released on Sunday.
When they were discovered, Mr. Guerrero stated, “the only thing they had in mind was to eat, eat.” “They wanted bread, they wanted rice pudding,” he stated.
On May 1, Ms. Mucutuy and her children were traveling from Araracuara, in the Amazonas province, to San José del Guaviare on a Cessna 206 with the intention of joining the children’s father, who had fled their home due to threats from a rebel group.
After the engine failed, the plane went down nose-first in thick jungle in the south of Colombia. Finding the wreckage took two weeks for search teams.
The army discovered the bodies of the two pilots and the mother of the children at the crash site, but it appeared that the children had wandered into the rainforest to seek assistance.
The missing kids turned into the focal point of an immense salvage activity including in excess of 100 troopers, neighborhood native individuals and sniffer canines.
The pursuit groups over and over seen signs in the wilderness, including impressions and organic product that had been nibbled into, which persuaded them to think the kids had endure the accident.
The children informed their rescuers that they had heard the helicopters and the recorded message from their grandmother in Huitoto, urging them to remain where they were to make it easier to locate them.
A team of rescuers heard one of the siblings crying and finally found them on Friday in a small clearing. “It was really a great happiness when we found them,” Mr. Guerrero said, describing the moment.
They were “very weakened, they have small wounds and bruises, they have illnesses that they contracted in the jungle, but overall they are well, they are in good hands,” according to Fidencio Valencia, their grandfather.
He went on to say that the children had survived for the first few weeks thanks to a bag of cassava flour they had found in the plane.
They are being treated in emergency clinic for unhealthiness and lack of hydration and have been visited by their family and individuals from the pursuit activity.
One of the children’s painted drawings, which depicts a sniffer dog named Wilson, was shared on Twitter by the Colombian military. Wilson, who lost contact with his controllers, is remembered to have found the kids and invested some energy with them in the wilderness yet is presently unaccounted for
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