our children, including a baby, were found alive in the Amazon jungle on Friday nearly six weeks after they survived the crash of a small plane and wandered into the wilderness, Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced.

“A joy for the whole country!” Petro said on his Twitter account Friday night. “The four children who were lost in the Colombian jungle for 40 days appeared alive.”

The president said that the children—siblings ranging in age from 13 years old to one—received medical attention in the small town of San José del Guaviare in southern Colombia and could be transported to Bogotá, the capital.

The ordeal for the children began on May 1 when the engine of the Cessna 206 they were traveling in sputtered and shut off over a swath of virgin jungle known as home to both jaguars and narco-trafficking groups whose members are former Marxist rebels.

[Oh,.this is SO marvelous. The 13 year old sounds like a take charge sort of young lady. What a GREAT story. ~ Beege]