Survival kits and thousands of leaflets were dropped over the weekend at Colombian jungle in the context of the operation in order to find the four missing children after the small plane they were traveling in crashed on May 1, authorities said.
The presidency announced yesterday, Monday, that 10,000 leaflets, written in Spanish and the indigenous Uitoto language, had been dropped from army helicopters about the way the children they can contact search and rescue teams. The army had announced on Saturday that it had dropped about 100 survival kits, parcels of food and drinking water.
Over 160 military personnel are participating in Operation Hope to find the four children, aged thirteen, nine, four years and 11 months respectively, who have been missing for 23 days in the jungle. The small Cessna 206 aircraft they were on disappeared from radar on May Day on the outskirts of the city of San Jose del Guaviare, in the department of Caquetas (south), of its destination. It was found on May 15, after crashing into thick vegetation.
The research teams and rescue they recovered three bodies, among them that of the children’s mother, the pilot and leader of the Uitoto indigenous community, to which all the passengers belonged. These three were the only adults on the small plane.
A team consisting of seven indigenous tribes from all over the country, who are familiar with the jungle, has been taking part in the investigations since the weekend, the presidency clarified, APE-MPE reports. At the same time, natives perform “spiritual ceremonies”, in the context of which they “talk to the jungle and ask it to speak to them” and help them find the children, according to the same source. At the same time, the army is trying to find where the children might be or what direction they might have taken in the jungle with the help of satellite images.
The armed forces believe that they may be roaming in a jungle area with an area of ​​approx 323 square kilometersin other words 80% of the area of ​​the capital of the country with eight million inhabitants.
On land searches, they found footprints, various items, notably baby bottles, half-eaten fruit and a makeshift shelter. The president of Colombia Gustavo Petro announced last Wednesday via Twitter that the four children were found safebefore revising a day later to say that investigations were ongoing.
Source: News Beast
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