After 19 years, lost woman emerges from jungle
A girl who went missing in the jungles of Cambodia in 1988 has miraculously been found 19 years later, identified by her father through a scar on her arm. Now a 27-year-old woman, she speaks no intelligible language, and was found with hair down to her legs. From USA Today‘s On Deadline: When I saw her, ...
A girl who went missing in the jungles of Cambodia in 1988 has miraculously been found 19 years later, identified by her father through a scar on her arm. Now a 27-year-old woman, she speaks no intelligible language, and was found with hair down to her legs.
A girl who went missing in the jungles of Cambodia in 1988 has miraculously been found 19 years later, identified by her father through a scar on her arm. Now a 27-year-old woman, she speaks no intelligible language, and was found with hair down to her legs.
From USA Today‘s On Deadline:
When I saw her, she was naked and walking in a bending-forward position like a monkey … She was bare-bones skinny,” her father told the Associated Press. “She was shaking and picking up grains of rice from the ground to eat. Her eyes were red like tigers’ eyes.”
In 1988, the woman—then an 8-year-old girl—vanished while herding buffalo in a remote area on the western edge of Vietnam’s Central Highlands. She was found Saturday when a villager noticed that food had been taken from the lunch box he left near his farm.
The woman’s father said that she initially resisted wearing clothes, bathing, and eating with chopsticks, but has since started cooperating.
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