Small footprints and lost shoes..clues children were still alive

Plane crash kids found after 6 weeks 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 helped them be 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.