Boy, 8, Found Alive in Maranhão as Search Intensifies for Two Missing Cousins

Overview

• A cart driver found the 8-year-old on a rural road in Santa Rosa after four days and he was taken to Hospital Geral de Bacabal.
• Rescuers said the child was weak but in stable condition and receiving care, with hopes he can later explain what happened.
• The missing children are siblings Ágata Isabelle, 5, and Allan Michael, 4, and teams continued looking through the night.
• Roughly 50 firefighters with three search dogs are deployed alongside Civil and Military Police and the Centro Tático Aéreo, which provided a helicopter and a thermal-sensor drone.
• During the operation, a man related to the family was detained on a prior attempted-rape warrant and items from his home were seized for analysis, which police say is not directly tied to the disappearances.