The boy was conscious after being found
Talking to reporters from Lao Dong Newspaper, Lieutenant Colonel Pham Duy Thinh, Head of Van Yen District Police (Yen Bai), said that the fact that a 6-year-old boy was found after 5 days and 4 nights of disappearance is extremely miraculous. .
"We were devastated when we received the information that we had found the baby on the cassava hill (6km from the original scene). When the boy was discovered, he was still mentally stable and alert, but his body was thin, his clothes were dirty, and he had a few scratches and insect bites on his body," Senior Lieutenant Colonel Pham Duy Thinh shared.
Before that, on August 17, D.VL (6 years old, from Khay Dao village, Lam Giang commune) and his family went to celebrate the full moon day of July at a relative's house.
In the afternoon, he and 8 other children went home together and stopped at the hill behind the house to pick fruit to eat. After that, L went in another direction and went missing.
Receiving information, hundreds of people including local forces and people divided into search directions in deep holes, caves, streams...
Survival skills
On July 2, after many days of searching in vain, the authorities found two missing children in Hoang Lien commune, Sa Pa town, Lao Cai province.
Ms. Lo Thi Do (mother of 10-year-old Ly AP) said that on the afternoon of June 29, when she returned from leading a tour, she did not see her son, so she called her husband, Mr. Ly A Khoa, to go look for him.
"At that time, our family was told by a student who was our son's friend that he saw P and Ly AS (7 years old) going fishing in the stream, which made us extremely scared and alerted the authorities to assist in the search." Ms. Do shared.
According to Ms. Do, there was flooding at that time, so authorities at all levels mobilized people to search along the stream and at the foot of the hydroelectric plant. The family also invited a fortune teller in the hope of finding their child soon.
Talking about the two children's survival on the roof of the school , Ms. Do said that they climbed onto the roof to find a bird's nest, but unfortunately, the door on the roof closed so the two children had no way to escape. Okay.
On the first day, the children continuously shouted, called for help and used bricks to knock on the wall to make noise, but because it was behind the school and surrounded by fields, no one heard.
At night, it was dark and the children were tired, so they hugged each other and huddled on the roof, waiting for adults to come rescue them.
On the second day, P and S found a black bottle that was unknown when they had been there and used that bottle to climb up to scoop water from the unlocked tank on the roof and share a drink.
The third day was the same, whenever there was light, the two children put their hands through the gap in the roof and waved to see if anyone was passing by to call for help.
But by this time, there was no food and they were too exhausted to continue climbing up to get water, so they had to use their hands to scoop water from the ground and drink to hold on...
"During the three days and nights of waiting for someone to rescue us, our voices were so hoarse, we could only sleep on the dusty roof. In the morning, when the sun shined through the gap, we avoided drifting to a corner of the wall," Ms. Do choked up. speak.
Meanwhile, Mr. Ly A Manh (Ly AS's brother) said: "Discovering the two children was also by chance and luck. On the morning of July 2, the security guard's son arrived early to open the school so the kitchen could prepare food for the soldiers mobilized to search for missing people. He accidentally heard someone calling for help, so he ran home in panic. call family members".
