Two brothers, who disappeared in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, were found four weeks later and were hospitalized.
Eight-year-old Glauco Ferreira and her six-year-old brother, Gleison, went missing in the woods near the town of Manicore on February 18 while trying to catch small birds.
The two brothers were found by chance by a forester on Tuesday.
Hundreds of townspeople had been searching for the children for weeks.
But the children’s disappearance during the rainy season made it difficult for the volunteers to search for them.
It is difficult to walk in the Amazon forests during the rainy season.
According to local media, Amazonia Real, the search and rescue teams gave up on February 24 and stopped looking for the children, but the townspeople continued to search for the children.
It is reported that the children were found 6 kilometers from their homes in Palmeira villages.
‘They said they ate nothing and only drank rain water’
According to the local press, one of the children shouted for help when he heard the sound of the ax, and that’s how the two were found.
It is stated that the children were found lying on the forest floor hungry and tired and their skin was full of abrasions.
According to local media, the children said that after reuniting with their families, they did not eat anything for two weeks and only drank rainwater.
The children were taken to a local hospital in Manicore and then by helicopter to another hospital in Manaus.
People had disappeared in the rainforest before.
In January last year, pilot Antonio Sena was found 36 days after his plane crashed in a remote part of the Amazon.
In 2008, an 18-year-old youth who went hunting was found 50 days after he disappeared and died shortly after being found.