The Colombian children found in the jungle had been on a plane to flee the armed group
The four children who survived an almost unfathomable 40 days in the Colombian jungle after their tiny plane crashed in the Amazon rainforest had boarded the plane because they were fleeing for their lives.Manuel Ranoque, the father of the two youngest survivors, explained in an interview that an armed group that forcibly recruited children by threatening violence had taken control of their home region in southern Colombia.Fearing their family was next, she said, relatives had been trying to get the children out of the territory, to a town where they could live in safety.Then the children's escape plane crashed, killing…








