Exhausted, disoriented, covered in mud… a 6-year-old boy found alive in a forest after disappearing 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's fine now"
The boy was discovered 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 gave him food and checked on his health. He is fine now", a police official told Agence France-Presse.
To survive these four days, Lam said he got lost in the forest and the more he walked, the more disoriented he felt. He survived by drinking water from a stream and picking wild leaves and fruits 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 expressed with emotion , Ly Thi Phai.
Intensive research had been launched
As soon as Lam disappeared, police in Lam Giang commune launched an intensive search, even emptying a pond out of fear that he had fallen into it, an officer said. More than 200 people actively participated in the search, according to local media.