Two brothers aged 6 and 8 miraculously survive 26 days lost in the Amazon

The authorities of Brazil Two brothers aged 6 and 8 who were lost in the Amazon for 26 days were transferred this Thursday to a hospital in the city of Manaus until they were found suffering from severe malnutrition.

the two little ones, indigenous of the mura ethnic group, disappeared on February 18when they went alone into the immensity of the Amazon jungle to hunt birds, in a wooded area of ​​the municipality of Manicoré, in the state of Amazonas (north).

They never came back. Firefighters, policemen, agents of the National Indian Foundation (Funai) and residents of the community set up a search device to try to find the whereabouts of the brothers. In total, some 260 people were involved.

Finding a person in the middle of that vast and inhospitable environment is almost an impossible mission. A week after his disappearance, firefighters officially ended the search. having found no sign of the children.

However, the indigenous community that lives in the region did not give up and He set up groups that came to track up to 15 kilometers around.

But, no trace of them, until On Tuesday of this week, a man who was cutting undergrowth in the Amazon jungle to open a road met the two brothers.

“I got very emotional. When she heard movement, the little boy yelled. He (the man) got there and they were lying down.” on the ground, described Claudionor Ferreira, the father of the little ones, in statements to the Globo group.

Immediately, they were taken to a hospital in Manicoré, with symptoms of severe malnutrition and scratches all over their bodies.

The doctors affirmed that during those 26 agonizing days lost in the Amazon the little ones they fed only on rainwater.

In the clinic of Manicoré they received the first care, although the lack of means and their weakened state of health forced the authorities to transfer them to a hospital in Manausthe capital of Amazonas, in a two and a half hour trip by land and air, according to the regional Ministry of Health.

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