Three teenage boys have been found alive after being lost in their boat in the Pacific Ocean for 50 days.
The boys, from the Tokelau Islands, a New Zealand-administered territory in the South Pacific, had been given up for dead.
A tuna fishing boat picked them up near Fiji and is taking them to hospital for treatment.
The boys had severe sunburn but were otherwise well, rescuers said.
‘GOOD SPIRITS’
The boys – two aged 15 and one aged 14 – had gone missing from Atafu Atoll in a small aluminium boat after an annual sport event on 5 October.
They were presumed to have died after unsuccessful searches by the New Zealand air force.
A memorial service was held for them.
The boys were then spotted north-east of Fiji on Wednesday afternoon.
“They were in reasonably good spirits for how long they’d been adrift for, for approximately two months,” said the first mate of the tuna vessel, Tai Fredricsen.
Source: bbc.co.uk
