An 8-year-old boy who became lost in a German city sewer was found alive after eight days | Businessinsider

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An 8-year-old boy who became lost in a German city sewer was found alive after eight days

Business Insider USA robot equipped with a camera is to help trace the way Joe might have entered the sewer system in Oldenburg, Germany.An 8-year-old boy who went missing for over a week in Germany was found alive in a sewer. Police have ruled out third-party involvement, and said the boy likely got lost in the sewer.An 8-year-old boy in Germany who went missing for eight days was found alive in a sewer, reports say.

The boy, who has only been identified as Joe, went missing on June 17 and sparked a widespread search. Police in Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, initially said that they feared that the boy, who they said has a learning disability, might misinterpret the search for him as a game and hide from them,Joe was eventually found just 300 metres from his home under a manhole last Saturday after a passerby reported hearing sounds under the street, policeThe boy was found completely undressed, and with severe dehydration and hypothermia, but was not seriously injured, police said.

"After evaluating all traces and clues, the officers now assume that Joe crawled through a drain into the rainwater sewer system on the day of his disappearance and lost his orientation after several meters," the police statement said. The boy likely climbed into the concrete pipe while playing, police said, and climbed along it for 23 meters. He then followed the sewer system through a plastic pipe with a diameter of about 60 centimetres.At one stage during the investigation, police launched a homicide investigation after receiving a tip that the boy had been seen with an unknown person, according to the police statement. This later proved to be false.

 

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