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A three-year-old boy who was lost in the Amazon rainforest has been found alive after 11 days, police in Brazil have revealed.

Boy was lost in jungle for 11 daysNeilson Oliveira Lima was apparently unharmed apart from suffering from dehydration and having thorns in his feet and legs, police said.

The boy disappeared from his home in the rural community of Pupuai on September 16.

He was found on September 27 about two miles away.

An Amazonas state police spokesman said: "He went in the forest following his father and he got lost. He was found by his cousin, who was out hunting.


"Nobody knows what he ate or how he survived."

The boy reportedly asked for water but said nothing about his ordeal.

A receptionist at a hospital in Caraurai said the boy was still there and was under observation.

Evanise de Oliveira Lima, the boy's mother, told CBN Radio she expected him to leave the hospital soon.

She said: "In the jungle near the house, there are jaguars, hawks, snakes.

"But his guardian angel and God protected my son."