Boys found adrift after 50 days

THREE teenagers missing in the South Pacific for 50 days — who were already eulogised in a memorial service — have been found alive by a New Zealand fishing boat.

The boys — two 15-year-olds and a 14-year-old — disappeared while attempting to row between two islands in the New Zealand territory of Tokelau in early October and were given up for dead after a search involving New Zealand’s air force.

Their craft had drifted 1,300km to a desolate part of the Pacific north-east of Fiji, when the crew of a tuna boat saw them frantically waving for help on Wednesday.