Relatives of the children who were lost in the Amazon jungle for 40 days have shared just part of the ordeal they suffered.
the children were taken to hospital in Bogota, Colombia, where they're expected to remain for at least two weeks.
Manuel Ranoque, father of the two youngest children, said the oldest of the four surviving children - 13-year-old Lesly Jacobombaire Mucutuy - told him their mother was alive for about four days after the plane crashed. Mr Ranoque said that before she died, the mother likely would have told them 'go away', apparently asking them to leave the wreckage site to survive.
He said the rescue shows how as an 'indigenous population, we are trained to search' in the middle of the jungle.The four children were found on Friday Fidencio Valencia, a child's uncle, told media outlet Noticias Caracol the children were starting to talk and one of them said they hid in tree trunks to protect themselves in a jungle area filled with snakes, animals and mosquitoes.
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