Children miraculously rescued in Colombia were fed jungle fruit after being lost for a month

Visibly thin, some images were released this Monday of the indigenous children of the miraculous rescue in the Colombian jungle. 39 days lost, the four little brothers were the only survivors of the plane crash that crashed in an area of ​​Caquetá on May 1.

Led by a 13-year-old teenager, the children toured a large area about 5 kilometers from the crash site. Apparently, the survivors moved away from the scene as the bodies of the three deceased, their mother, the pilot and an indigenous leader began to decompose around the fourth day. Meanwhile, rescue teams scrambled to find them in the inhospitable region; Hope was sparked when they found a diaper and bottle believed to belong to the child less than a year old who was the youngest of the survivors.

Lesly (13), Soleiny (9), Tien Noriel (5) and Cristin (1) were found Friday afternoon by military and indigenous rescuers. They were underweight and dehydrated in the middle of the jungle in the south of the country, where the plane they were traveling in crashed on May 1.

More than 100 military and indigenous people from the area, supported by sniffer dogs, followed the trail of the minors as they walked 2,656 kilometers through the jungle. That is a distance equal to a straight line between Caracas and Quito.

Clues: passion fruit that really was Juan Soco

According to the newspaper El Colombiano, these are minors they started walking in search of seeds, that is, wild fruits”. Two of these are the juan soco and the milpesos, two common fruits in the Amazon jungle that are part of the diet of indigenous communities because they are grown in the chagras, a piece of land suitable for cultivation very close to their settlements.

He juan soco It has a shell similar to that of a passion fruit, but in contrast the pulp and seeds are sweetwith a texture similar to that of chewing gum.

On the other hand, a kind of milk is extracted from the thousand pesos that is used for the preparation of drinks. The natives ripen it in lukewarm water to prepare juices later. Oil can also be extracted from it.

In the month of the search, the rescuers also reported it They found passion fruit in one of the places where the four children must have spent the night. In addition, the little ones may have eaten fariña, a type of cassava flour, which the rescue teams use They were included in the survival kits left by the armed forces for the jungle minors as their search continued.

Although they were able to eat during their journey, the doctors who cared for them at the Military Hospital diagnosed the children with symptoms of malnutrition and dehydration.

The children have been at the Central Military Hospital in Bogotá since early Saturday morning, arriving in “acceptable clinical conditions”.

Now the army stays in the Wilson’s questthe rescue dog whose figure was drawn by the children after the rescue.