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The Associated Press

4 children who survived for 40 days in the Colombian jungle recover as details emerge

On Saturday in Bogota, Colombia, military personnel unload from a plane one of four Indigenous children who were missing after a deadly plane crash. (Ivan Valencia/AP)

BOGOTA, Colombia — The four Indigenous children who survived 40 days in the Amazon jungle after their plane crashed have shared limited but harrowing details of their ordeal with their family, including that their mother survived the crash for days before she died.

The siblings, aged 13, 9, 4 and 1, are expected to remain for at least two weeks in a hospital receiving treatment after their rescue Friday, but some are already speaking and wanting to do more more than lie in bed, relatives said.

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