Colombian President Gustavo Petro has formally retracted an announcement he made declaring that 4 lacking siblings, purported survivors of a May 1 airplane crash, had been discovered.
The youngsters’s mom, Magdalena Valencia, perished within the incident, as did pilot Hernando Murcia and passenger Herman Hernandez.
An preliminary tweet suggesting that the Mucutuy siblings — Lesly, a 13-year-old woman; and boys Soleiny, 9, Tien, 4, and Cristin, 11 months — had been discovered was put out on Mr. Petro’s Twitter account Wednesday night. That tweet was deleted later.
On Thursday, Mr. Petro clarified the scenario, matching the Colombian navy’s report that it had not made contact with the kids and couldn’t corroborate their whereabouts or survival.
“I have decided to delete the tweet because the information provided by the [Colombian Institute of Family Welfare] could not be confirmed. I’m sorry about what happened. The Military Forces and the indigenous communities will continue in their tireless search to give the country the news it is waiting for,” Mr. Petro tweeted.
The Institute of Family Welfare, which Mr. Petro had not directly cited in his Wednesday tweet, had obtained its info on the household’s survival secondhand from indigenous communities deep within the Colombian inside.
The firm that owned the Cessna that crashed on May 1, Avianline Charters, has additionally obtained secondhand experiences that the kids had been sighted, however couldn’t verify them.
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