Children lost for 40 days in Colombian Amazon found alive

Four Indigenous children who had been missing for more than a month in the Colombian Amazon rainforest were found alive and flown to the capital Bogota early Saturday. The four indigenous children were found alive this Friday after suffering a plane crash on May 1, Colombia's President Gustavo Petro reported.

On May 1, the plane in which the children were traveling with three adults, including their mother, fell into the Amazon jungle, near the Apaporis River. Indigenous trackers found the wrecked plane 17 days later with the corpses of the three adults inside, but no sign of the children.

The president ordered a large military operation to search for the children, in cooperation with indigenous communities. According to the military, rescuers found the children about five kilometers west of the crash site.