Tinotenda Pudu spent five days and four nights in a wildlife park in the country. He ate wild fruits and used survival techniques to drink. “It’s a miracle,” declared a local elected official.
He will have spent five days eating wild fruits, drinking water collected with a survival technique, all in the middle of “unforgiving nature”. Tinotenda Pudu, a young boy from the isolated community of Nyaminyami in Zimbabwe, got lost for several days in a national wildlife park where lions, hippos and elephants live together, says Mutsa Murombedzi, local elected official, on X.
According to the latter, the little boy, aged 8, walked to find himself more than “23 kilometers” from his village, after having lost track of it. For its part, contacted by the BBC, the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority explained that the child, aged 7 and not 8, had walked 49 kilometers.
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During her solitary journey, Tinotenda Pudu slept on a “rocky perch”, in the middle of “roaring lions and passing elephants”, says the parliamentarian.
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To eat, Tinontenda collected wild fruits. To hydrate himself, he dug water wells in the beds of many dry rivers. “It’s too much for a child of his age,” reacted Mutsa Murombedzi.
The child found by forest rangers
To try to find him, members of his community set out after him, beating their drums every day for him to find his way. In vain.
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According to the elected official, at the end of the fifth day, Tinontenda heard a car, that of the forest guards. He ran towards the vehicle, but drove away without seeing it.
It was only a few hours later that these same guards, retracing their steps, spotted “small human footprints”. He was eventually found alive. “It was his last chance,” insisted Mutsa Murombedzi.
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