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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Luke Taylor

Rescuers reveal tragic words of children who survived in Colombian jungle

The tragic first words four Colombian children spoke after surviving for 40 days in the Amazon jungle have been revealed by their rescuers, as the youngsters recover at a military hospital in Bogotá.

When a search party found the emaciated children on Friday, the first thing Tien Noriel Ranoque Mucutuy, four, said was: “My mother is dead.”

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