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boston bean

(36,186 posts)
Sun Apr 15, 2012, 03:09 PM Apr 2012

Little boy lost finds his mother using Google Earth

Saroo was only five years old when he got lost. He was travelling with his older brother, working as a sweeper on India's trains. "It was late at night. We got off the train, and I was so tired that I just took a seat at a train station, and I ended up falling asleep."

That fateful nap would determine the rest of his life. "I thought my brother would come back and wake me up but when I awoke he was nowhere to be seen. I saw a train in front of me and thought he must be on that train. So I decided to get on it and hoped that I would meet my brother."

Saroo did not meet his brother on the train. Instead, he fell asleep and had a shock when he woke up 14 hours later. Though he did not realise it at first, he had arrived in Calcutta, India's third biggest city and notorious for its slums.

"I was absolutely scared. I didn't know where I was. I just started to look for people and ask them questions."


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17693816
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Little boy lost finds his mother using Google Earth (Original Post) boston bean Apr 2012 OP
Wow. Kadie Apr 2012 #1
Great Story cantbeserious Apr 2012 #2
Unbelievable. Thanks for posting. (It'll be a movie soon, I'm sure) n/t K Gardner Apr 2012 #3
re:Little boy lost finds his mother using Google Earth View profile allan01 Apr 2012 #4
What a story! k&r Little Star Apr 2012 #5

allan01

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Sun Apr 15, 2012, 05:21 PM
Apr 2012

this would make a tear jerker of a movie. thanks for this . persistance pays off.

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