A mother
and her infant son who disappeared in a plane crash in the dense jungle of
western Colombia have been found alive and well five days later in what
authorities have described as a “miracle”.
Nelly
Murillo, 18, and her son Yudier Moreno, not yet one year old, were found on
Wednesday close to the site where the Cessna 303 crashed on Saturday in thick
vegetation near Quibdo in the province of Choco.
“It’s a miracle. It is a very wild area and it was a catastrophic accident,”
Colonel Hector Carrascal, the commander of the Colombian air force in Antioquia,
told AFP news agency.
“His
mother’s spirit must have given him strength to survive.”
Murillo
and her baby were taken by helicopter to a nearby hospital with minor injuries,
said Carrascal, adding that he was stunned they were alive.
“The
lady has wounds and minor burns and apparently the child is unharmed,” the
Colombian air force said in a statement.
The
plane’s pilot, Captain Carlos Mario Ceballos, died in the crash and rescuers
found his body in the aircraft.
They
discovered the doors of the plane ajar and suspected that survivors may have
clambered out.
A
14-person search-and-rescue team scoured the dense forest before finding the
mother and child.
The
plane was travelling between Nuqui and Quibdo in western Colombia when it
crashed.
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