When the four young kids were found alive in the Amazon after more than a month, the news attracted global attention. Everyone is curious to know about these miracle kids, whom the Colombian President Gustavo Petro refers to as “children of the jungle".
The kids were aged between 13 years to few months old
13 years old Lesly Jacobombaire Mucutuy, 9 years old Soleiny Jacobombaire Mucutuy, 4 years old Tien Ranoque Mucutuy, and infant Cristin Ranoque Mucutuy are the only survivors of a deadly plane crash. These kids lost their mother Magdalena Mucutuy Valencia in a plane crash in May. Pilot Hernando Murcia Morales and Yarupari leader Herman Mendoza Hernández were also killed in the crash.
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They survived on cassava flour
The kids are malnourished. In the initial days, after the crash, they survived on farina, a coarse cassava flour. They had carried three kilos of the farina flour with them.
“They were malnourished but fully conscious and lucid when we found them. Their indigenous origins allowed them to acquire a certain immunity against diseases in the jungle and having knowledge of the jungle itself – knowing what to eat and what not to eat – as well as finding water kept them alive – which would not have been possible (if they) were not used to that type of hostile environment," CNN quoted a Colombian military special forces official saying.
"Over a hundred Colombian special forces troops and over 70 indigenous scouts" combed the area looking for the kids, media reports say. During this time they got clues like footprints, dirty diapers and a bottle.
The kids were found at a place which was 3 hours away from the site of the plane crash.
The Colombian President referred to the 40 days' struggle of the kids as "“a remarkable testament of survival."
The kids have been carried to a hospital in Bogota by air ambulance and are undergoing treatment. Medical reports say they were dehydrated but out of danger.
