Colombian children found alive five weeks after Amazon jungle plane crash

The children – one of whom was just 11 months old – were rescued by the military after surviving on fruit and making shelters in the thick jungle

Four children from an Indigenous community in Colombia were found alive in the south of the country more than five weeks after the plane they were travelling in crashed in thick jungle, Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, has said.

The children were rescued by the military near the border between Colombia’s Caqueta and Guaviare provinces, close to where the small plane had crashed.