Miracle! 4 Children Including 11-Month baby Survive Plane Crash in Amazon Forest

Four children, including an 11-month-old baby, had a miraculous escape from death in a plane crash more than two weeks ago in the Amazon forests of Columbia. President Gustavo Petro on Wednesday declared this a “joy for the country.”

The children are from the Indigenous Huitoto community, who are known for living in harmony with the remote jungle. The community develops skills in hunting, fishing, and gathering, which may have helped the children to survive.

The airplane in which they were traveling crashed on May 1, leaving three adults including the pilot and the children’s mother dead. Petro said on Twitter the children were found after “arduous search efforts” by the military. More than 100 soldiers had been deployed with sniffer dogs to search for the minors who had survived the plane crash.

Apart from the 11-month-old, the survivors include a 13, nine and four-year-old. They were wandering through the jungle in the southern Caqueta department since the crash.

Avianline Charters, owner of the crashed aircraft, said that one of its pilots in the search area was told the children had been found and that they “were being transported by boat downriver and that they were all alive.”