A Swede pulled from a snowed-in car claiming he had not eaten for two months had lived in the vehicle since mid-2011, media reported, as experts said that his “miraculous survival” was theoretically possible.

A Swedish man is thought to have survived on nothing but snow for two months.

Maritime officials today inspected damage to a passenger ferry that ran aground in north-eastern Sweden after it was being towed during a heavy storm, the Swedish Coast Guard said.