A 10-year-old boy who was swept away by floods on Monday as his family fled floods caused by torrential rains in Spain was reportedly rescued exhausted after clinging to a tree for eight hours.
“Thank you,” was all that was said by the completely exhausted child when he woke up after falling asleep in the arms of his rescuers as soon as he was pulled out of the water on Monday, the French newspaper La Hurry reported on Wednesday .”
Given the bad weather, little Ethan’s family tried to escape from their second home in Aldea del Fresno when the vehicle was swept away by the current, a witness told broadcaster TF1.
If the boy and his 14-year-old sister had managed to escape from the hut through the trunk, the boy would have been carried about three kilometers before he managed to cling to a tree, where he had previously been for almost eight hours remained would have been saved.
“The poor man sat in a tree all night,” reported the president of the neighboring region of Madrid, Isabel Diaz Ayuso, who visited the most affected area.
His older sister, 14, and his mother, found 500 meters away, were also rescued. Unfortunately, the father, who was also in the vehicle, was still “not to be found”, as the witness told TF1.