Colombia's president retracts claim children were rescued

The Colombian president on Thursday admitted he had been mistaken to announce the rescue of four Indigenous children after their plane crashed in the Amazon Rainforest.

Declaring "joy for the country,"President Gustavo Petro had written on Twitter that the children, one of them a baby, were found after "arduous search efforts" by the military. DW was among the news outlets covering his initial comments.

Early in the morning of May 1, the plane carrying seven people between Araracuara, in Amazonas province, and San Jose del Guaviare, a city in Guaviare province, had suffered an engine failure.

While the three adults, including the pilot, died in the plane crash — it was suspected that the four children aged 13, 9 and 4, as well as the 11-month-old baby, survived the impact.