The strategy used to track down four children lost in the Colombian jungle, visualised.
By The Visual Journalism TeamWhen four indigenous children went missing after their plane crashed in the Colombian jungle on 1 May, a massive search operation was launched to track them down.
The Avianline Charter plane was flown by Hernando Murcia, 55. Also on board was a local indigenous leader, Hermán Mendoza. However items belonging to the children found in the jungle filled the search team with hope that they had survived the crash. While each clue was a welcome sign for the more than 100 soldiers combing the jungle that their search was not in vain, the thick foliage and remote location meant that their progress was arduously slow.
Day after day, soldiers with sniffer dogs combed the jungle. They were joined by volunteers from local indigenous groups anxious to find the children.The search commander explained that it was not so much a search for a needle in a haystack, but rather a search for "a tiny flea in a vast carpet, because they keep moving".
After 40 agonising days, four indigenous volunteers finally spotted 13-year-old Lesly, Soleiny, 9, five-year-old Tien Noriel and one-year-old Cristin Neriman in a little clearing.The youngsters were airlifted to the Colombian capital, Bogotá, where they are receiving treatment in a military hospital.Mr Ranoque told reporters that his wife and the children had boarded the fateful flight because they had wanted to join him after he had been forced to flee their home.
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