A turtle granted the rescuers wish and the children who had been lost in the Colombian jungle for 40 days immediately appeared

Another Indigenous member of the rescue team who spent 40 days searching for traces of the four children, missing after the crash of their plane, He said during the television interview that a morrocoy – a tortoise – they found in the jungle was also the key to the discovery.

“The grandparents used to tell us that if you ask for a wish, he (morrocoy) fulfills it (…) And the very morrocoy we found on the way (…), I took it (…) and gave him him I said ‘you are going to give me the children’ (…) it didn’t take more than half an hour. We walked about 400 meters and the goal was reached”.

The Colombian children, aged 13 to 1, were traveling with their mother in a plane that crashed into the jungle on May 1. From that day on, the search for the four little ones began, which ended last Friday when they were found malnourished and hungry just four and a half kilometers from the plane crash site.

Colombian public television this Sunday aired a video of the moment when the four indigenous children who survived 40 days in the Amazon jungle were found by aboriginal rescuers on Friday.

“I received the girl (Lesly) in my arms and said, ‘I’m hungry,'” Nicolás Ordóñez Gomes, one of the members of the search team, said during a live television interview on public RTVC.

“We went to the child and he was lying. He got up and very deliberately said, “My mother died,” he added.

In the images filmed with a mobile phone, the minors of the Huitoto community appear quite emaciated, the smallest in the arms of one of his rescuers. They are all very skinny.

The rescuers, members of the native guard, sing, smoke tobacco (a sacred plant among the natives) and give thanks with joy.

“God never abandons us when we really ask for it (…) faith has put us on the path we wanted,” says another native savior.

Baby Cristin, who spent her first year of life in the middle of the undergrowth, appears in the arms of one of the native guards who participated in the search through the wild jungle with the army.

The other three emaciated minors, Lesly (13 years old), Soleiny (9) and Tien Noriel (5), gather to be flanked by other rescuers, one of them smoking a cigar.

The footage released by the Colombian Public Media System also shows the children lying down and being given “serum” to rehydrate them through teaspoons given by the military.

“We are handing over the children to the Colombian armed forces. We found them four and a half kilometers from where the plane they were traveling on crashed on May 1, it is understood.

The children’s mother, an indigenous leader and the pilot were killed in the accident.