Moment four children found alive after 40 days in jungle' - (S： Channel 4 News)
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Summary
Four children were on board a plane with their mother when the engine failed. Today, it emerged that she survived the crash, but not the jungle. It was her who told the children to flee and save themselves. For 40 days and 40 nights, they toiled through the rainforest before their salvation.
Transcript
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This was where their odyssey began. The four children were on board this plane with their
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mother when the engine failed. Today it emerged that she survived the crash, but not the jungle.
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It was her who told the children to flee and save themselves. Four children, the eldest 13
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and the youngest barely one, set off against the jungle. For 40 days and 40 nights they toiled
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through the rainforest before their salvation. The search mission had been called Operation
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Hope, and the military deployed the voice of the children's grandmother throughout the
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jungle on a tannoy. But it was indigenous volunteers who found the four children. The eldest was
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hailed as a hero for using ancestral knowledge of the rainforest to keep her younger siblings
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safe. The truth, I want to say it in a few words. We're indigenous people. We believe
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a lot in the jungle, which is our mother. That is why I always had faith and said that
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The children had been traveling from an Amazonian village to the city's San Jose del Gaviere.
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Their disappearance had united Colombia in prayer for a miracle. And this national tragedy turned
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to triumph. Children that were lost have now been found.