Exhausted, disoriented, covered in mud… 6-year-old boy found alive in forest after missing for four days
|Il a survécu en buvant l’eau d’un ruisseau et en cueillant des feuilles et des fruits sauvages qu’il reconnaissait (illustration). Unsplash – Markus Spiske
Un enfant vietnamien a été retrouvé, ce jeudi 22 août 2024, après avoir disparu quatre jours dans la forêt. Ses jours ne sont pas en danger.
A six-year-old boy who went missing for four days in a mountainous forest in northern Vietnam has been found alive, police said Thursday, August 22, as quoted by BFMTV.
Lam was reported missing on Saturday after he failed to return from a family celebration in Yen Bai province with his siblings.
“He is fine now”
The boy was found exhausted, covered in mud, and sitting in a cassava bush by a man who heard his cries, according to a local media. “We were told the boy was tired. They fed him and checked on him. “He is fine now,” a police official told Agence France-Presse.
To survive the four days, Lam said he got lost in the forest and became more disoriented the further he walked. He survived by drinking water from a stream and picking wild leaves and fruits that he recognized.
“I was so happy that my child came back alive. “I cried because he looked thinner and weaker than before he disappeared,” Lam's mother, Ly Thi Phai, said emotionally.
Intensive search launched
As soon as Lam disappeared, police in Lam Giang commune launched an intensive search, even draining a pond for fear he had fallen into it, an officer said. More than 200 people actively participated in the search, according to local media reports.