Two brothers aged 6 and 8 survived 26 days lost in the middle of the Amazon jungle, eating some fruits and drinking rainwater, and were found with severe malnutrition problems, in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, authorities reported.
The children Glauco and Gleison Ferreira had left the indigenous reserve where they live with their family in the municipality of Manicoré, state of Amazonas, 330 kilometers from the regional capital, Manaus, last February 18 to hunt birds.
It was at that moment that they had the last contact with their relatives and they got lost in the jungle after traveling several kilometers behind the birds, explained a spokesman for the firefighters of the Amazonas State Police.
The parents made the complaint to the police, who undertook a search with 260 people, mainly indigenous and riverside people, who are the people who live in the floating houses on the banks of the Amazonian rivers with great knowledge of the secrets of the jungle of greater world diversity.
The children were found lying down with signs of malnutrition and rickets by a local that he had ventured into the jungle to look for dry wood, something difficult to find in this season of rains and submerged forests in the Amazon forest.
The Secretary of Health of the state of Amazonas reported that children They were taken to an intensive care unit. in the city of Manaus with a special diet.
“They were hungry, they barely drank rainwater to survive,” said the nurse who treated them in the municipality of Manicoré, which lacks intensive care beds.
