BRASILIA (Brazil), Jan 7: A 21-month-old girl who went missing during a New Year’s party in northern Brazil was found alive on Tuesday at the bottom of an abandoned well after five days without food or water, national media reported.

Television images showed members of the Military Police bringing Ana Clara out of the well showing a few minor injuries and insect bites all over her body. Clara disappeared from her ranch in Ariquemes, in the northernmost state of Roraima, as her parents and friends were getting ready to celebrate on New Year’s Eve.

Local firefighters and police with rescue dogs searched the neighbourhood, fearing the girl had strayed to a nearby river, until they found her at the bottom of an old well hidden by thick bushes.

“It’s a miracle,” said Clara’s mother Francoise Abranches.

—AFP