BOGOTA (Colombia) — Colombian television broadcast emotional images on Sunday (June 11) of the moment when four children who survived in the jungle for 40 days after a plane crash met their rescuers.
The images, taken on a mobile phone, show the four weary children, the smallest in the arms of one of the rescuers.
Interviewed on public broadcast channel RTVC, the indigenous rescue team that found the children in the jungle recounted the first moments of the meeting.
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