Four children who disappeared 40 days ago after a plane crashed in the Amazon jungle have found alive, Colombian authorities announced.
The four children received immediate medical attention after they found.
Petro said the children were all together when they found, adding they had demonstrated an example of “total survival that will remembered in history.”
“They are children of the jungle and now they children of Colombia,” he added.
Revealing their discovery earlier in the day, the Colombian president had tweeted an image that seems to show search crews treating the children in a forest clearing, along with the words: “A joy for the whole country!”
The children, who appear gaunt in the photos, has evaluated by doctors before flown out by the Colombian Air Force on an air ambulance to the Military Transport Air Command in Bogota, the capital, early Saturday morning.
Four medics, including a pediatrician and a neonatologist. It provided treatment on board the plane. According to the air force.
The air ambulance landed at the Military Transport Air Command in Bogota Saturday morning, data from Fightradar24 showed.