Two brothers aged 7 and 9 were found after spending 25 days lost in the jungle in the state of amazonBrazil, and are recovering in a hospital from the severe malnutrition they suffered after eating only wild fruits.
The children, Glaucon and Gleison, aged 7 and 9 respectively, were found on Tuesday by a close friend “35 km from the place where they disappeared, with severe malnutrition and dehydration, and now they are gaining weight, without risk of death.” , informed the AFP on Friday January Carneiro da Cunha Neto, coordinator of the Indigenous Special Health District (DSEI)from Manaus, the state capital.
Disappearance
The brothers, of the Mura ethnic group, had been missing since February 18, when they entered to hunt birds in the thick vegetation from the community where they live, in a rural area of the municipality of manicoréabout 330 km from Manaus.
During the time they remained in the jungle, “they only drank rainwater and lake water, and ate sorva,” a regional fruit with a high content of carbohydrates and fat, Carneiro da Cunha Neto explained.
Rosinete da Silva Carvalho, mother of the children and her ten siblings, told the network Amazon Network that “they were used to eating sorva, because my eldest son always brought a bag for them when he went hunting”.
“That allowed them to survive,” explained the coordinator, who spoke with the family at the Manaus hospitalwhere the brothers also recover from skin lesions and some infections under constant supervision, but without the need to be admitted to the intensive care unit.
Images released by local media show the extremely skinny children after the rescue, when they were transferred to a hospital in Manaus.
Finding
After almost a month, his discovery was accidental, given that the formal search tasks by the fire department had ceased a week after the disappearance, and only the indigenous people of the area continued. “An acquaintance of the family who went to collect wood ended up finding the children by chance,” explained the DSEI coordinator.
During the long days in which they tried unsuccessfully to find their way home, the oldest of the children, Gleison, took care of his younger brother, carrying him on his back when exhaustion, exacerbated by the lack of food and water, commented Carneiro da Cunha Neto.
In addition to that risk, he added, the children walked tens of kilometers in that jungle area exposed to wild animals, such as cobras.
The episode reminds the one who lived in early 2021 a pilot Antonio Sena who after his plane crashed spent 38 days lost in the Brazilian Amazon and survived.
(With information from AFP)
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