5-year-old boy survived a day with eating grass in desert

A five-year-old boy who went missing during a family walk in Argentina was found safe and well after 24 hours lost in a desert in the west of the country. Authorities in San Juan province and some 1,000 volunteers went searching for the boy -- with a former Dakar Rally motorcyclist finding him 21 kilometres (13 miles) from where he was last seen.

The child was hospitalised for slight dehydration. "I was cold, I slept badly, leaning on a rock," he told the newspaper Clarin upon leaving hospital Tuesday. The boy said he had drunk from a stream and eaten grass. "He spent 24 hours in nature, that is nothing," said Alberto Ontiveros, the man who found him, noting that wild pumas roam the area.