Four children missing for six weeks after their plane crashed in the Amazon jungle are ‘FOUND ALIVE’

Four indigenous children who went missing for more than a month in the Colombian Amazon jungle after a plane crash have reportedly been found alive. 

The brothers, aged one, four, nine and 13, had been travelling in a light aircraft on May 1 when the plane is believed to have failed. 

The crash killed the children’s mother Magdalena Mucutui Valencia, as well as the pilot and an indigenous leader. 

There were no signs of the youngsters when the aircraft’s wreckage was recovered by the Colombian military – igniting a massive search operation in the southeast of the country to find them.

Now the children have been found alive, according to military sources quoted by the Columbian press. 

President of Colombia Gustavo Petro shared the good news on Twitter, writing a message which translates to: ‘A joy for the whole country! The 4 children who were lost 40 days ago in the Colombian jungle appeared alive.’

Sources from the Military Forces allegedly confirmed to news site EL TIEMPO that the children lost since May 1 have survived. 

Satellite images previously revealed a path the children took from the plane wreck, and rescuers came across some of their belongings – a pair of shoes and a nappy – as well as a makeshift shelter and a half-eaten fruit.  

It comes after Colombia’s president came under fire when he tweeted that the children had been found but later deleted it, saying the information could not be confirmed.

Leaders from the Huitoto indigenous group expressed hope that the children’s knowledge of fruits and jungle survival skills should give them better odds of being found alive.