Boy Found Alive After 5 Days Surrounded by Lions in Game Park [Video]

A missing boy has been found alive after spending nearly a week alone in a northern Zimbabwe game park filled with lions, elephants and other wild animals, local officials said.

On Wednesday, Jan. 1, Mutsa Murombedzi, a member of Zimbabwe’s parliament, shared news of the “true miracle” on social media. 

“A boy missing & found in Matusadonha game park,” she began in a post on X (formerly known as Twitter), sharing a photo of the child.

According to Murombedzi, 8-year-old Tinotenda Pudu wandered away from his remote Kasvisva community, “where one wrong turn could easily lead into a game park.”

Describing Matusadona National Park as “perilous,” the parliament member said the child had “unknowingly” made his way into the game park after going in the wrong direction.

“After 5 long, harrowing days in the jungle near Hogwe River, which feeds into Ume river, the boy has been found …