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Cassava flour and fruit kept 4 children alive for 40 days after Amazon plane crash

Four Indigenous children (aged 13, 9 and 4 years and 11 months) survived an Amazon plane crash that killed three adults and then braved the jungle for 40 days before being found alive by Colombian soldiers. Cassava flour and some familiarity with the rainforest’s fruits were key to the children’s extraordinary survival in an area where snakes, mosquitoes and other animals abound. Defense Minister Iván Velásquez told the children were being rehydrated and cannot eat food yet.