Two children were found lost 25 days in the Amazon rainforest. They ate weeds and drank from the rain!

After being lost for 25 days in the Brazilian Amazon, two indigenous children aged seven and nine were found severely malnourished as they ate only wild fruits.

Januario Carneiro da Cunha Neto, the coordinator of the Indigenous Health District in Manaus, the capital of the Amazon state, where the two children went missing, told AFP that the two children, Glocon and Gleason, were found on Tuesday by one of their relatives "35 km from the place where they went missing." They suffer from "severe malnutrition and dehydration".

He also explained that "one of the family's acquaintances went to search for firewood and stumbled upon the two children."

He also revealed that the two children, during their stay in the forest, "drank only rainwater and lakes, and ate the surfa", a fruit rich in carbohydrates and fats.

For her part, Rosinetti da Silva Carvalho, the mother of the two children and ten others, told local media that they "usually ate sorfa, as my eldest son always took a bag with him when he went out to fish."

It is reported that the two brothers have been missing since February 18, the day they went out to hunt birds in the forest in Manikuri district, 330 kilometers from Manaus.

They were found by chance, as official searches were suspended a week after their disappearance.

During the long days when the two children failed to find their way home, the older child Gleeson took care of his younger brother, carrying him on his back while he was exhausted from the lack of food and water.

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