Children found after 40 days in Amazon survived by eating ‘cassava flour’

[Scott]

 

 

Eating cassava flour helped save the lives of four children found alive in the Amazon jungle more than a month after their plane crashed, according to a Colombian military special forces official.

The children ate “three kilograms (six pounds) of farina,” a coarse cassava flour commonly used by indigenous tribes in the Amazon region, said spokesperson Pedro Arnulfo Sánchez Suárez.

“Days after the crash, they ate the farina which they had carried there… but they (eventually) ran out of food and decided to look for a place where they could stay alive,” Suárez said.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/11/world/colombia-missing-children-how-they-survived-intl-hnk/index.html

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[Tug]

A wonderful story of survival the kids the oldest is 11 years old the youngest is 11 months old all survived unfortunately their mom was killed in the crash those are some tough little kids 40 days alone in the jungle just wow ???? and wonderful some goodness in on our sad little planet and thanks for running the story!

[Jingthing]

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