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An uplifting story has up in our news feeds. Four children who were missing and dead after a plane crash a month ago have been alive and well. The siblings, aged 13, nine, four and a one-year-old baby, on a plane that in the Amazon jungle in Colombia on May the first. The children's mother, the pilot and co-pilot in the crash. Before the plane disappeared, the pilot a mayday alert, citing engine failure. Moments later, it from radar screens. The children had missing for 40 days when members of Colombia's military found them. A news agency said people from the Huitoto indigenous group in the jungle the soldiers' search.

Colombia's President Gustavo Petro said news of the children's discovery was "a joy for the whole country" and a "magical day". He added: "They alone. They themselves an example of total survival which will in history. These children are today the children of peace and the children of Colombia." Colombia's Civil Aviation Authority a statement regarding how the children . It the siblings the wreckage and trudged through the jungle in search of help. The children to the Huitoto group. Their knowledge of what edible in the jungle and their experience of the terrain probably them a better chance of survival.