Four Indigenous children including a one year old were found alive by the Columbian soldiers after 40 days of search and rescue operation following a plane crash that killed three adults.

Colombia's President Gustavo Petro said the rescue of the siblings are" a joy for the whole country".

The four children who are originally from the Huitoto Indigenous group are aged 13, nine, four and one respectively.

The President further said, "Today we have had a magical day."

"They are weak. Let's let the doctors make their assessment," Petro added.

The three adults who were killed in the plane crash were the children's mother and  two pilots.

The plane crashed in the Colombian Amazon rainforest on 1 May and since then kids have been missing and wandering alone in the jungle, which is a home to jaguars, snakes and other predators, as well as armed drug smuggling groups.

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