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Alligators, snakes, biting insects: Small plane crash survivors recall 36-hour ordeal in Bolivian jungle

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Doctor who treated the five survivors says all are conscious and in stable condition.

Only the boy's aunt, 37 , is still hospitalized for an infected gash to her head.

The pilot, 27-year-old Pablo Andres Velarde , emerged Friday to tell the story that has transfixed many Bolivians .

They survived by eating ground cassava flour that one of the women had brought as a snack.

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English

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