Boy, three, back with family after ‘miracle’ survival in Australian woodland

Hundreds of people had been searching for Anthony “AJ” Elfalak, who has autism and is non-verbal, since he went missing from his family’s remote rural property near the village of Putty, north of Sydney, late on Friday morning
Boy, three, back with family after ‘miracle’ survival in Australian woodland

Three-year-old AJ Elfalak is carried by a paramedic. Picture: Dean Lewins/AAP Image via AP/PA

A three-year-old boy wearing a sweatshirt and a nappy was found sitting in a creek and cupping water in his hands to drink, three days after he was lost in rugged Australian woodland.

Hundreds of people had been searching for Anthony “AJ” Elfalak, who has autism and is non-verbal, since he went missing from his family’s remote rural property near the village of Putty, north of Sydney, late on Friday morning.

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