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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Stuti Mishra

Colombia plane crash mother was alive for four days and told children to ‘leave her to survive’

AP

The Colombian mother, whose children miraculously survived 40 days in the Amazon jungle, was alive for four days after a plane crash, a latest testimony revealed.

The four children were found alive by authorities on Friday, over a month after the small plane crashed in the jungle after going off the radar on 1 May. The children survived by eating cassava flour, authorities said.

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