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'We are family': Rescuers recount incredible moment they found missing children

By Genevieve Glatsky & Julie Turkewitz
New York Times·
8 mins to read

At first, he heard a soft cry. Then, just beyond the broad leaves of the jungle, Nicolás Ordóñez could make out the form of a small girl, a baby in her arms.

Ordóñez, 27, a young man from the humblest of backgrounds, stepped forward, soon to become a national hero. He and three other men had found four Colombian children who had survived a terrifying plane crash followed by 40 harrowing days in the Amazon rainforest — and whose plight

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