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| Missing Japanese boy Yamato Tanooka is found alive after six days | |
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| A seven-year-old boy who went missing in bear-inhabited forests in northern Japan after his parents said they abandoned him as punishment, has been found alive, according to authorities. | |
| “The boy was found alive, but we don’t have information on details of his condition,” Satoshi Saito, a fire department rescuer, told AFP. Saito said the boy identified himself as Yamato Tanooka. | |
| Yamato has been missing since Saturday after his parents said they made him get out of their car on a mountain road because he was misbehaving. He was reportedly without food or water. | |
| JUST IN: Missing Japanese boy left in the woods by his parents found unharmed, police say. https://t.co/mGxk27Mmq4 pic.twitter.com/W5dzEPwJw6 | |
| The parents originally told police their son had got lost while they were out hiking to gather wild vegetables but later admitted they were angry and tried to punish him because he had thrown stones at cars and people. | |
| Related: Desperate hunt continues for Japanese boy left in forest by parents as punishment | Related: Desperate hunt continues for Japanese boy left in forest by parents as punishment |
| News agency Kyodo said the boy was found at about 7.50am on Friday by military personnel in a building on an exercise area in the town of Shikabe in Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost island. It is about 5 km away from where he went missing, or 7km if travelling the region’s forest paths. | |
| According to a SDF soldier who is familiar with the building but wasn’t there when they found him, the boy was “curled up” on a mattress and not visibly injured. The soldiers gave him rice balls and bread. | |
| The area of forest in which Yamato went missing has experienced heavy rainfall, with overnight temperatures dropping to 7 degrees C (44F). | The area of forest in which Yamato went missing has experienced heavy rainfall, with overnight temperatures dropping to 7 degrees C (44F). |
| SDF personnel interviewed by TV Asahi said there was no heating in the building, which was supposed to be locked. | |
| Broadcaster NHK reported the boy has been taken to hospital and police were working to confirm his identity and examine the circumstances in which Yamato went missing. | Broadcaster NHK reported the boy has been taken to hospital and police were working to confirm his identity and examine the circumstances in which Yamato went missing. |
| The military has been searching for the boy since Wednesday. The local town of Nanae requested military support after rescuers and police officers had already scoured the area for four days, with heavy rains at times hampering the search. | |
| “We asked the SDF to go into places which people can’t easily access, such as deep crevasses along creeks,” town spokesman Mitsuru Wakayama told AFP. | |
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