Colombian government refutes 4 children, including an 11-month-old baby, were found alive in the Colombian jungle more than two weeks after their plane crashed and killed every adult on board.
Search teams have found items they think belong to the children in the jungle as well as a makeshift shelter.
This has led them to believe the children have been wandering alone through the rainforest since the crash.
But Mr Petro said information about their rescue could not be verified.
The children - who range in age from between 13 years to 11 months - were on board a small plane along with their mother, a pilot and a co-pilot when it crashed on 1 May.
The adults all died in the crash.
News about the alleged rescue of the children was broken by the president himself on Wednesday afternoon local time, when he tweeted that they had been found "after arduous search efforts".
Four children, including an 11-month-old baby, were found alive in the #Colombian jungle more than two weeks after their plane crashed and killed every adult on board.
The miraculous news was shared by President #gustavo Petro following an intense search carried out by the country’s military, firefighters and civil aviation authority officials.
The doomed plane crashed into the thick jungle on May 1, killing the pilot and two other adult passengers aboard.
The three adults were found dead inside the Cessna 206.
The four surviving children from the country’s Indigenous community are ages 13, 9, 4, and the infant.
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