Siblings, who spent more than 40 days in Amazon after plane crash in early May, told of mother’s death when search party arrived

The tragic first words four Colombian children spoke after surviving for 40 days in the Amazon jungle have been revealed by their rescuers, as the youngsters recover at a military hospital in Bogotá.

When a search party found the emaciated children on Friday, the first thing Tien Noriel Ronoque Mucutuy, four, said was: “My mother is dead.”

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