A mother has saved her two children after a shipwreck by breastfeeding them for four days while she drank her own urine - before she finally died.
Mariely Chacon, 40, kept Jose David and Maria Beatriz Camblor Chacon alive after their boat was destroyed by a wave following a trip to an island in the Atlantic Ocean.
The Venezuelan drank her own urine so she had the energy to breastfeed the six-year-old and two-year-old while they floated on the wreckage 70 miles out to sea
Rescuers found the children holding their mother's body on the remains of the vessel and they were rushed to hospital with dehydration and first-degree burns.
The mother and her children had been on the boat with their nanny - who also survived by hiding in a fridge to escape the heat.
But five others - including Chacon's husband and the children's father Remis David Camblor - are still missing.
The nine-strong crew had left Higuerote in Venezuela for the uninhabited Caribbean island of Tortuga on September 3 on the vessel Thor de Higuerote.
Mariely Chacon, 40, kept Jose David and Maria Beatriz Camblor Chacon alive after their boat was destroyed by a wave following a trip to an island in the Atlantic Ocean.
The Venezuelan drank her own urine so she had the energy to breastfeed the six-year-old and two-year-old while they floated on the wreckage 70 miles out to sea
Rescuers found the children holding their mother's body on the remains of the vessel and they were rushed to hospital with dehydration and first-degree burns.
The mother and her children had been on the boat with their nanny - who also survived by hiding in a fridge to escape the heat.
But five others - including Chacon's husband and the children's father Remis David Camblor - are still missing.
The nine-strong crew had left Higuerote in Venezuela for the uninhabited Caribbean island of Tortuga on September 3 on the vessel Thor de Higuerote.
