'It's a miracle,' his dad says. 'He's alive. It's amazing.'
A toddler was found three days after he went missing in the Australian wilderness, authorities confirmed on Monday.
New South Wales Police responded to reports just before 12.30 p.m. on Friday that three-year-old Anthony"AJ" Elfalak had gone missing from his family's property in the rural area of Putty, where he was last seen. AJ is autistic and non-verbal, according to CNN affiliate Seven News.
— NSW Police Force September 6, 2021 Around 11.30 am on Monday, after a lengthy search, aviation support service PolAir spotted AJ and was able to guide ground search teams to him. "A three-year-old child missing on a rural property in the Hunter region since Friday has been located following a large-scale search," NSW Police said in a Twitter post on Monday. The post also included a video of AJ drinking water on a nearby riverbank.
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