The mother of four children, Magdalena Mucutuy, Rescued after 40 days in the Amazon jungle, he stayed alive until four days after his plane crashed. He told his children to go and find help while he lay dying.
Speaking to reporters, the children’s father, Manuel RanoqueShe said her eldest daughter told her that her mother urged them to leave and save themselves. The siblings, ages 13, nine, five and one, were rescued and airlifted out of the jungle on Friday. They were transferred to a military hospital in the country’s capital, Bogotá.
“The only thing that (Lesly, 13) has clarified for me is that, in fact, her mother was alive for four days,” Ranoque told reporters outside the hospital.
Colombian public television broadcast this Sunday unpublished images of the rescue of the four indigenous children after surviving more than a month in the Colombian jungle, a feat in which their mother died four days after the plane crash on May 1.
“I received the girl (Lesly) in my arms, saying she: ‘I’m hungry,'” said Nicolás Ordóñez Gomes, one of the members of the search team, during a live televised interview on the public RTVC. «We went to see the child and he was lying down. He got up and said, very consciously: ‘My mom died,'” he added.
“warrior” nature
Lesly (13 years old), Soleiny (9), Tien Noriel (5) and Cristin (1) were found alive on Friday in the middle of the Amazon jungle in the south of the country and 5 km from the site of the accident, in which three crew members died. Adults.
Colombian public television broadcast on Sunday unpublished images filmed with a mobile phone where the minors appear quite emaciated and thin, the smallest in the arms of one of his rescuers. The rescuers, members of the indigenous guard, sing, smoke tobacco (a sacred plant among the natives) and give thanks with joy.
More than a hundred soldiers and indigenous people from the area, supported by sniffer dogs, followed the trail of the minors as they walked through the jungle for 2,656 kilometers. A journey equivalent to the distance between Caracas and Quito.
Magdalena Mucutuy, mother of the children, and an indigenous leader also died, although the uniformed officers did not specify where their bodies were.
«She (Lesly) the only thing that clarifies for me is that the mother was alive for four days, so before dying the mother tells them, perhaps, ‘go away, you are going to see who your father is, who does know what love is Dad like (I) showed you,’” her husband and now widower Manuel Miller Ranoque told the press next to the military hospital in Bogotá, where minors from the Huitoto community are recovering.
Lesly, who has a “warrior” nature and is very “intelligent”, kept her younger siblings safe, her grandparents have told AFP in interviews.
The search was difficult due to the thick vegetation in the area, with trees that reach 40 meters in height, the presence of jaguars and snakes, and the permanent rain that prevents possible calls for help from being heard.
