Relatives fight for custody of children who survived Amazon jungle plane crash

Relatives fight for custody of children who survived Amazon jungle plane crash
A custody battle has broken out among relatives of four Indigenous children who survived a plane crash and 40 days alone in the Amazon rainforest (Colombia’s Armed Forces Press Office/AP)

A custody battle has broken out among relatives of four Indigenous children who survived a plane crash and 40 days alone in the Amazon rainforest.

The children were travelling with their mother from the Amazonian village of Araracuara to the town of San Jose del Guaviare on May 1 when the pilot of the Cessna single-engine propeller plane declared an emergency due to engine failure.

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