BOGOTA (Reuters) - The&nbsp;eldest&nbsp;of the four Indigenous&nbsp;children&nbsp;who were missing for more than five weeks in Colombia's southern jungle after a&nbsp;plane&nbsp;crash&nbsp;pulled&nbsp;her youngest sibling&nbsp;from&nbsp;the&nbsp;wreckage, the&nbsp;children's grandfather said on Monday.
The&nbsp;children, aged 1 through 13, survived the May 1 crash that killed their mother and two other adults and were found on Friday in Caqueta province after weeks of searching by the military and Indigenous communities.
The oldest&nbsp;sister, Lesly, whose courage has been hailed by authorities as key to the&nbsp;children's survival,&nbsp;pulled&nbsp;the youngest child, Cristin,&nbsp;from&nbsp;the&nbsp;plane, grandfather Narciso Mucutuy said in videos posted by the defense ministry.
"When she looked and saw that her mother was dead, she saw the feet of her littlest&nbsp;sister&nbsp;where the three dead were and she&nbsp;pulled&nbsp;her out," Mucutuy said at the Bogota military hospital where the&nbsp;children&nbsp;are being treated.
The&nbsp;children&nbsp;spent four days near the&nbsp;wreckage, he said, eating flour that had been onboard, before wandering&nbsp;from&nbsp;the site.
Lesly was exhausted by the time they were&nbsp;rescued, Mucutuy added. The&nbsp;children&nbsp;used large leaves and branches to shelter&nbsp;from&nbsp;the rain, he said, and spent time with one of the military rescue dogs sent to look for them.
The dog, Wilson, remains missing and an operation to find him is ongoing.
The&nbsp;children&nbsp;are recovering satisfactorily, the child welfare agency said, and have been able to see some family members, as well as draw and talk.
"The&nbsp;children&nbsp;are well, they are stable and following their medical treatment," said agency official Adriana Velasquez in a video posted on Twitter.
Rescuers told Colombia's public broadcaster in an interview on Sunday that the&nbsp;children&nbsp;hugged them and said they were hungry when they were found. The boy told them their mother was dead, the rescuers said.
The father of the two youngest siblings has said the&nbsp;children&nbsp;will tell their own story about the ordeal.
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(Reporting by Julia Symmes Cobb; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)

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