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Four Siblings Who Survived Deadly Plane Crash Speak Out After 40 Days Lost in Amazon Rainforest

  • Four Indigenous children survived a plane crash in the Amazon jungle and 40 days alone
  • The children were fleeing violent armed groups in their home region that forcibly recruited children
  • The children's mother survived the crash for four days before dying in front of them
  • The 13-year-old sister helped keep her younger siblings alive by foraging for food and building shelters
  • A custody battle has erupted between the children's relatives as the siblings recover in a Bogotá hospital
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