Four missing children found in Colombia after 40 days alone in the jungle

Four children went missing in early May after a plane crashed in Colombia’s Amazon rainforest. The three adults on board were found dead, but the children were missing. After more than a month of searching by the military and Indigenous groups, the children were finally found alive, malnourished and covered with insect bites. Manuel Rueda reports from Bogota on what authorities are learning about how the siblings survived.

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