A four-year-old girl, who was believed to have drowned in a river around the rain forest, was recovered alive after surviving five days alone.
The incident occurred in northern Brazil, where a minor girl identified as Ana Vitoria Soares Cardosa went missing on 29th December in a rural area of the Rio Maniva community.
The girl who was playing with her elder eight-year-old sister went missing with family fearing that she might have drowned in a nearby river as she did not know swimming.
Emergency services were called in, who initiated a search and rescue operation using divers to hunt for the missing girl in the
river. The search, however, went in vain, further strengthening the belief that she had drowned.![](https://53e29caaa80a9ada6e7a3a45cf0f0da5/wp-content/plugins/accelerated-mobile-pages/images/SD-default-image.png)
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Later talking to media, the mother of the child said that she survived by ‘eating fruit and drinking from a stream’.
The mother added: ‘She was sitting on a trunk, but she was unable to walk. A cousin found her.’
She was taken to where she remains under observation but is expected to make a full recovery.
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