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Added on the 01/09/2015 05:39:29 - Copyright : Reuters - Next Media
A four-year-old boy who had been missing for nearly five days in a forest inhabited by bears, has been found alive. The child, named Dima Peskov, was discovered in a Siberian forest near the Ural Mountains. Little Dima survived by eating grass and drinking from puddles, but the dirty water and constant bites by mosquitos and other insects had taken their toll. He was on the verge of death when he was discovered.
Fabien Accidini couldn't believe his ears when 17-year-old Alex Batty told him he'd been "kidnapped". "I had to ask him to repeat" what he was saying, chiropractic student Fabien Accidini tells AFP during a game of pétanque with a friend in the village of Gréasque, 30 km from Marseille. The British teenager who had been missing for six years was picked up by Accidini in the middle of the night on a remote road in a mountainous area of southern France. SOUNDBITE
Images of the area near Chalabre, in southern France, where a UK teenager was found on Wednesday after disappearing in Spain six years ago when he was 11. Alex Batty, originally from the northern English city of Oldham, was picked up by a driver in a mountainous area. IMAGES
Images of the wood near Challans in western France, where the body of Karine Esquivillon, a mother who had been missing for two and a half months, was found by investigators after her husband, Michel Pialle, confessed to the murder during the night. IMAGES