The children's mother survived for four days after the plane crashed in the jungle.
The mother of the children rescued after 40 days in the Amazon jungle told them to leave and find help as she lay dying.
"The one thing that [13-year-old Lesly] has cleared up for me is that, in fact, her mother was alive for four days," Mr Ranoque told reporters outside the hospital. Nicolas Ordonez Gomes, a member of the search and rescue crew, recalled the moment they discovered the children. In new footage released on Sunday of the children's rescue, the four siblings appeared to be emaciated from the weeks they spent fending for themselves in the wilderness.
The missing children became the focus of a huge rescue operation involving dozens of soldiers and local people.
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