Footprints and lost shoes..clues the children were alive

4 plane crash kids found after 6wks in jungle

- PHIL CARDY

RESCUERS share the moment they made their most precious find- four children lost for nearly six weeks in the Amazon rainforest after a plane crash that killed their mother.

As the kids, aged one to 13, were cared for yesterday it emerged they survived by living like "children of the jungle", leaving a trail that made sure they were found.

Footprints, shoes, nappies, half-eaten fruit and a baby's bottle were all clues they were still alive and wandering around somewhere in the dense rainforest in Colombia.

Shelters made of jungle vegetation also spurred on the search for the Mucutuy siblings - Lesly, 13, Soleiny, nine, four-year-old Tien and baby Cristin, whose first birthday passed while they were missing.