Colombian public television broadcast a video on Sunday afternoon of the moment when the four children who had wandered through the jungle for 40 days met their native rescuers.
In these moving images, shot on a mobile phone, we see the four emaciated children, the youngest in the arms of one of his rescuers. They are all terribly emaciated.
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Their saviors, members of the indigenous guard, sing, smoke tobacco (a sacred plant among the indigenous people) and give thanks with joy.
Invited to the set of RTVC (public TV), this same indigenous team that found the children in the jungle recounted the first moments of the meeting.
“The eldest daughter, Lesly, with the youngest in her arms, ran towards me. Lesly said: ‘I’m hungry,’” said Nicolás Ordóñez Gomes, one of the team members. “One of the two boys was lying down. He got up and told me: ‘my mom is dead’”.
“We immediately followed with positive words, saying that we were friends, that we were from the family, from the father, from the uncle. That we were family!”, detailed Nicolás Orden Gomes.
Lesly (13 years old), Soleiny (9 years old), Tien Noriel (5 years old) and Cristin (1 year old) were found alive on Friday afternoon by rescuers. as they wandered alone through the jungle since the May 1st crash of the small Cessna 206 plane aboard which they were traveling with their mother, the pilot and a relative. All three adults died in the accident.
Source: BFM TV
