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New details have emerged about how four indigenous children managed to stay alive in the Colombian rainforest for forty days after a plane crash.

The youngsters, all members of the indigenous Huitoto people, had been missing since the light plane they were travelling in crashed into the Amazon in the early hours of 1 May.

The tragedy killed their mother and left the children - aged 13, nine, four and one - stranded alone in an area teeming with snakes, jaguars and mosquitos.

Manuel Rueda is a journalist in the Colombian capital, Bogota, where the children are now in hospital. He told Newsday: 鈥淭hey were able to survive initially with three kilos of cassava flour that someone on the plane was carrying鈥�.then鈥�they wandered in the jungle for many days and they lived on fruits and seeds that they could find in the trees鈥�the childrens鈥� grandfather鈥�said because it鈥檚 an environment they were used to, they didn鈥檛 panic.鈥�

(Picture: Shows soldiers and indigenous people as they attend to four children rescued after 40 days in the jungle, in Guaviare, Colombia, 9 June 2023. Credit: Military Forces of Colombia Handout.)

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