6-Year-old Boy Found in the Forest After 150 Searched for Five Days

nnRelief flooded Vietnamese social media and news waves when reports that a young boy lost for 5 days in the tropical rainforest had finally been found.nnA search party of police, volunteers, and soldiers reached 150 in number as they combed the mountains in the northwest Yen Bai Province.nnThe five year old Dang Tien Lam was playing in a creek with his siblings when after wandering up a hill, he probably became disoriented and searched down the wrong slope for his playmates.nnIt can take as little as a few hundred yards in tropical jungle to lose all track of where you’re going, and this small miststep was the first chapter in a 5-day ordeal that ended when the boy was found under a cassava bush by a farmer.nnHis clothes were completely soiled, and he was too weak to stand.nn”I’m so tired, I can’t stand up, please carry me up,” Lam said, according to 52-year-old farmer Ly Van Nang. “[The child told me] that when he got lost, he could not find his way home, and the more he walked, the more he could not find a way out.”nnLocal news said the boy survived by eating leaves, wild fruits, and drinking streamwater.nnMIRACULOUS RESCUES: Woman Lost 8 Days in the Australian Bush Survives to See Her 4 Children Again ‘It is miraculous’nnThe police, commenting on the story, offered “congratulations” on his eventual safe return, and said it was a “miracle” that he had survived and been found. Vietnam is a heavily forested country, and Yen Bai a heavily forested province.nnThe story is reminiscent of the children lost in Colombia’s rainforests last year.nnMORE VIETNAMESE NEWS: ‘Mother Theresa of Vietnam’ Overcame Decades of Homelessness to Help Hundreds of OrphansnnThe four children were passengers on a plane that went down and killed all three adults on board.nnThe children, aged 13, 9, and 4, along with a 12-month-old baby, sheltered and found food to eat using indigenous knowledge remembered from their upbringing.nnSHARE This Harrowing Oreal And Safe Return With Your Friends…