【双语】哥伦比亚空难40天后，4名幸存儿童获救，亲属争夺监护权

当地时间2023年5月1日，一架从哥伦比亚阿拉拉夸拉市飞往圣何塞市的飞机由于发动机故障，坠入距离圣何塞市以南约175千米的阿帕波利斯河。机上7人全部失踪，包括4名未成年人。

当地时间2023年5月17日，哥伦比亚总统佩特罗表示，经过搜救，最终在丛林中找到了四名生还的儿童的线索。

2023年6月9日，经过40天搜救，4名儿童在丛林中苦撑40天后，全部获救。4名幸存儿童年龄分别为13岁、9岁、4岁，以及一名11个月大的婴儿。救援人员认为，事故发生后，他们一直在丛林中游荡。

按照媒体说法，4名儿童所属的维托托族丛林生存经验较为丰富。5月17日，哥军方报告，救援人员发现多件物品，包括剪刀、发带、鞋子、一个“用树枝临时搭成的小棚”、一个婴幼儿喝水的瓶子以及吃了一半的水果，据此判断有幸存者，随后加强搜救力度。

搜救行动后来得到周边多个州、共计80余名土著志愿者的支援。军用直升机把一箱箱食物投进丛林，希望能帮助孩子们活下去；播放孩子们的祖母用部落语言维托托语录制的信息，告诉他们不要乱跑；救援人员砍倒树木，在树上喷漆，以期给孩子们提供指引。

多支救援队曾多次从那附近经过，距离他们也就大约20米至50米，但遗憾错过。孩子们被发现时“已经非常虚弱”，仅能呼吸、喝水，或者勉强摘些小果子果腹。

据报道，孩子的父亲有家暴行为，目前孩子的父亲和爷爷在争夺监护权，其中两个孩子并非爸爸亲生。

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A custody battle has broken out among
relatives of the four Indigenous Colombian children who survived a plane crash
and 40 days alone in the Amazon rainforest, with the father of two of them
facing accusations of domestic violence.

The siblings, ranging in age from one to
13, remained in hospital on Monday and were expected to stay there for several
days, during which time Colombia’s child protection agency will interview
family members to determine who should care for them after their mother died in
the 1 May crash.

Astrid Cáceres, head of the Colombian
Institute of Family Welfare, said in an interview with BLU radio that a
caseworker was assigned to the children at the request of their maternal
grandparents, who are vying for custody with the father of the two youngest.

“We are going
to talk, investigate, learn a little about the situation,” Cáceres said, adding
that the agency has not ruled out that they and their mother may have
experienced domestic abuse.

“The most
important thing at this moment is the children’s health, which is not only
physical but also emotional, the way we accompany them emotionally,” she said.

On Sunday, grandfather Narciso Mucutuy,
accused Manuel Ranoque, the children’s father, of domestic abuse against their
mother, Magdalena Mucuty, telling reporters the children would hide in the
forest when fighting broke out between the pair.

Ranoque acknowledged to reporters that
there had been trouble at home, but he characterised it as a private family
matter and not “gossip for the world”.

Asked whether he had attacked his wife,
Ranoque said: “Verbally, sometimes, yes. Physically, very little. We had more
verbal fights.”

Ranoque said he has not been allowed to see
the two oldest children, of whom he is not the biological father. The Institute
of Family Welfare declined to comment on why that was the case.

The children were travelling with their
mother from the Amazonian village of Araracuara to the town of San Jose del
Guaviare on 1 May when the pilot of the Cessna single-engine propeller plane
declared an emergency due to engine failure. The aircraft fell off the radar a
short time later and a search began for the three adults and four children who
were on board.

For more than a month the children survived
by eating cassava flour and seeds as well as some fruits they found in the
rainforest, which they were familiar with as members of the Huitoto Indigenous
group.

They were finally found on Friday and
helicoptered to the capital, Bogotá, and then to a military hospital where they
have been given psychological services and other support. Officials have sought
to do so in a culturally sensitive way, arranging for spiritual ceremonies and
food the children are accustomed to.

The children have told relatives harrowing
details of their time in the jungle. The oldest said their mother was alive for
about four days after the crash before dying, Ranoque said Sunday.

The plane was found two weeks after the
crash in a thick patch of rainforest. The bodies of the three adults were
recovered, but there was no sign of the children, prompting hopes that they
could be alive.

During the weeks-long search, soldiers in
helicopters dropped boxes of food into the jungle, and planes fired off flares
at night to illuminate the ground for rescue crews. Rescuers also used speakers
to blast a message recorded by the children’s grandmother telling them to stay
in one place.

The children were ultimately found about
5km from the crash in a small clearing. Authorities said rescuers had passed
within 20 to 50 metres (70 to 160ft) of the site on a couple of occasions but
missed them.

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来源：卫报、百度百科

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