Dispute in Colombia over whether children found alive in jungle weeks after plane crash

President spoke of joy for the country' after four children had been found two weeks after crash, but military sources say they have no confirmation of the news

There was confusion over whether four children from an Indigenous community in Colombia had been found alive following a plane crash, after claims from the country's president that they had been located were contradicted by military sources.

The children have been missing for more than two weeks after the plane they were travelling in crashed in the dense jungle of Colombia's Caqueta province, president Gustavo Petro has said.