
CNN
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Five people have been rescued from an alligator-infested swamp almost two days after their plane crashed in the Amazonian jungle in Bolivia.
The small aircraft, carrying the pilot, three women and a child, crashed on Wednesday, but the group were not rescued until Friday morning, the Bolivian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
None of the group were seriously injured and they survived on chocolate and cassava flour during the ordeal.
The plane had taken off from the Baures municipality in northern Bolivia and was bound for the city of Trinidad, the Ministry said.
An hour after take-off, the pilot reported…