A nine-year-old boy was found after spending six days lost in a Mexican jungle following Hurricane Milton.
The child survived by drinking water from puddles.
The events began on October 5th, when the boy, Joel Acosta, fled his home in the town of Palizada in Campeche after his stepfather told him he could not have more dogs as pets.
Acosta, also known as ‘El Choco,’ left with his dogs, and his parents reported his disappearance when he did not return, initially thinking he had gone to play near a stream close to their home.
A rescue team composed of the Local Commission for the Search of Persons of the State of Campeche, police, and neighbors led the search for Acosta and deployed drones.
However, initial efforts were unsuccessful after the dogs’ tracks were erased by the storm.
Authorities had a breakthrough when Acosta’s dogs, Bobi, returned to the neighborhood after the Campeche prosecutor’s office issued an Amber Alert.
Rafael Miranda, who oversees the road unit of the Directorate of Protection and Citizen Security of Campeche, revealed that Acosta survived by drinking water from puddles and guided himself and the dogs at night by looking at the stars.
“He left home in the middle of a hurricane, which is incredible; now he will be able to face any challenge,” said Miranda, according to the local media Por Esto.
Javier Quintero, director of the Local Commission for the Search of Persons of the State of Campeche, told Univision that Acosta “had vital signs” and was “evidently a bit dehydrated, disoriented.”
The boy was taken by the military to a hospital in Zapata, a town in the nearby state of Tabasco, where doctors treated him for malnutrition and dehydration.
Source: Contra
