MANAUS, Brazil — Two Brazilian Indigenous boys aged
seven and nine have been found after surviving 25 days lost in the
Amazon rainforest, where they ate fruit and drank rainwater to stay alive, officials
said Friday.
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Brothers Glauco, 7, and Gleison, 9, were
found Tuesday 35km from the spot where they went missing, famished and
dehydrated but otherwise fine.
"They are suffering from malnutrition
and severe dehydration, but they are gaining weight, with no risk to their
lives," Januario Carneiro da Cunha Neto, an indigenous health official in
the northern city of Manaus, told AFP.
The boys, members of the Indigenous Mura
group, went missing on February 18, when they left their village in the rural
county of Manicore in Amazonas state and entered the dense rainforest to hunt
for birds.
"They survived on rainwater, lake water
and sorva," a local fruit rich in carbohydrates and fats, Carneiro said.
The authorities had given up the search for
the boys. But local Indigenous residents kept looking for them, until one day a
family friend who was out gathering wood found them by chance, Carneiro said.
He said the older boy had carried the
younger one on his back when he grew too weak to walk.
The boys were taken Thursday to a hospital
in Manaus and were being treated for some cuts and infections, but fortunately
avoided any run-ins with snakes or other wildlife, he said.
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