Two young brothers have been found after they went missing for almost four weeks in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest.
The indigenous boys aged just six and eight are believed to have gotten lost whilst trying to catch small birds in the jungle near Manicore, Amazonas state, on February 18.
In a miraculous miracle, a tree cutter stumbled upon the boys by chance on Tuesday.
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The brothers are expected to make a full recovery after they were treated in hospital for malnourishment.
Hundreds of residents in the area had spent weeks looking for the pair after they disappeared.
Concern grew for their safety as they went missing during the rainy season of the Amazon, which makes walking in the jungle more difficult.
Emergency services made the decision to call off the search on February 24. However, locals continued their searches according to local media outlet Amazônia Real.
Thankfully almost a month later, the boys were found by a man cutting wood 6km from their home.
One of the boys shouted for help alerting the man to them when he heard the sound of an axe hitting the trees nearby.
The man found the two boys lying on the rainforest floor after he followed the sound of their voices and managed to locate them.
The brothers were hungry and weak and had sustained many skin abrasions.
According to local media, the two boys told their parents they had eaten nothing while lost and had had only rainwater to drink.
Upon their discovery, Glauco and Gleison were sent to a regional hospital in Manicore before being transported by helicopter to another hospital in Manaus on Thursday morning, Globo reports.
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