The four children who were missing after the small plane they were traveling in crashed on May 1 in dense jungle in southern Colombia have been found alive more than five weeks later, two sources told Reuters news agency.

The children, aged 13, 9, 4 and 1, who belong to the indigenous Uitoto tribe, were rescued by members of the armed forces, the fire service and the civil aviation service who were searching for them as part of the rescue operation dubbed ‘Hope’, the sources said. .

“The whole country rejoices”: Colombian President Gustavo Petro confirmed in a post on the social networking site Twitter that four children who were missing after the small plane they were traveling in crashed on May 1 in a dense jungle in southern Colombia have been found alive forty days later , posting a photo of where they were found.