Eldest of rescued Colombian children pulled sister from plane wreckage

FILE PHOTO: One of the surviving children from a Cessna 206 plane crash in the thick jungle, holds a surgical glove with a happy face drawn on it, while being transferred to Bogota via air in San Jose del Guaviare, Colombia, June 9, 2023. Colombian Air Force/Handout via REUTERS

BOGOTA (Reuters) - The eldest of the four Indigenous children who were missing for more than five weeks in Colombia's southern jungle after a plane crash pulled her youngest sibling from the wreckage, the children's grandfather said on Monday.

The children, aged 1 through 13, survived the May 1 crash that killed their mother and two other adults and were found on Friday in Caqueta province after weeks of searching by the military and Indigenous communities.