Plane crash in the jungle
Colombia’s President corrects success story: search for four children continues
Note: Due to the corrected information, the video shows an outdated state of knowledge.
Four children, including an eleven-month-old baby, crashed in a Cessna in Colombia on May 1st. The three adults on board were killed. Contrary to initial reports, the children have not yet been found.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has retracted claims that four children had been found missing in the jungle. The search for the children of the indigenous people of the Huitoto, who have been missing for two weeks, is ongoing, Petro wrote on Twitter on Thursday. He deleted his tweet from Wednesday, apologized for his previous statements and pointed out that earlier information from the Colombian family authority ICBF had not been confirmed.
On Wednesday, Petro said in the now-deleted tweet that the children, including an 11-month-old baby, were found alive in the dense Colombian Amazon rainforest more than two weeks after a plane crash.
Soldiers search for children in the jungle
Authorities had dispatched more than a hundred soldiers with sniffer dogs to search for the minors who were in a Cessna 206 that crashed on May 1. Three adult occupants died in the crash, including the mother of four children. The older children are four, nine and 13 years old.