Colombia keeps looking for missing children of plane crash

Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Thursday retracted his claim that four Indigenous children missing for more than two weeks after an airplane crash in the Amazon had been found alive. Writing on Twitter, Petro said he had deleted his tweet from Wednesday night in which he had announced the rescue of the four children, including an 11-month-old baby.

More than 100 soldiers have been deployed with sniffer dogs to search for the minors who were traveling in an airplane that crashed on May 1, leaving three adults including the pilot and the children's mother dead. Amid widespread confusion, the military has not commented since Petro's announcement on Wednesday. The children's grandmother, Fidencio Valencia said there was hope that they would be found alive since "they are used to being in the jungle."