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The tragedy killed their mother and left the children -- aged 13, nine, four and one -- stranded alone in an area teeming with snakes, jaguars and mosquitos.

The father of the infants, Manuel Ranoque, has shared details of their 40-day ordeal in the Amazon, and warned that FARC dissidents have threatened to kill him

The tragedy killed their mother and left the children stranded alone

The four Indigenous children who survived 40 days in the Amazon jungle after their plane crashed have shared limited but harrowing details of their ordeal.

The father of the two youngest children said that before she died, the mother would have likely told them to "go away", apparently asking them to leave the wreckage site to survive.

BOGOTA, Colombia -- The four Indigenous children who survived 40 days in the Amazon jungle after their plane crashed were recovering Sunday in a military hospital in Colombia, as new details of their harrowing story emerged in a country still mesmerized by their saga.

The children's mother survived for four days after the plane crashed in the jungle.

Alone for 40 days in the jungles of Colombia, surrounded by animals of prey and gangs of drug smugglers, four siblings - the youngest less than a year old - managed to survive after their plane crashed; 'The jungle saved them. They are children of the jungle and of all of Colombia now'

The four Indigenous children who survived 40 days in the Amazon jungle after their plane crashed have shared limited but harrowing details of their ordeal

The four Indigenous children who survived 40 says in the Amazon jungle after their plane crashed have shared limited but harrowing details of their ordeal with their family, including that their mother survived the crash for days before she died.