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Joy, disbelief after boy is rescued in risky Tsavo wilderness six days later

Search party with the boy who went missing in the Tsavo East National Park. [Sheldrick Wildlife Trust]

A four-year-old boy survived in the wilderness for six days before he was rescue.

For close to week, a search party comprising more than 70 combed Tsavo East National Park in Taita Taveta, looking for the boy who got lost while herding livestock with his siblings.

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