{"id":28444,"date":"2013-08-09T03:27:25","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T23:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=28444"},"modified":"2013-08-09T03:28:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T23:28:51","slug":"found-after-40-years-man-who-went-missing-with-his-son-in-the-vietnamese-jungle-when-his-mother-and-two-of-his-children-were-killed-in-a-bomb-at-their-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=28444","title":{"rendered":"Found after 40 years: Man who went missing with his son in the Vietnamese jungle when his mother and two of his children were killed in a bomb at their home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Ho-Van-Lang-41-has-been-living-in-the-jungle-of-Vietnam-since-he-was-two-years-old.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-28441\" alt=\"Ho Van Lang, 41, has been living in the jungle of Vietnam since he was two years old\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Ho-Van-Lang-41-has-been-living-in-the-jungle-of-Vietnam-since-he-was-two-years-old.jpg\" width=\"380\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Ho-Van-Lang-41-has-been-living-in-the-jungle-of-Vietnam-since-he-was-two-years-old.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Ho-Van-Lang-41-has-been-living-in-the-jungle-of-Vietnam-since-he-was-two-years-old-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/a>A father and son have been found living in the jungle of Vietnam four decades after they went missing during the country&#8217;s war with the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Ho Van Thanh and his son Ho Van Lang apparently fled their home village 40 years ago after a bomb killed three members of their family.<\/p>\n<p>They were discovered by locals looking for firewood in deep forest in the Tay Tra district of Quang Ngai province.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday authorities confirmed that the men were Thanh, 82, and 41-year-old Lang.<\/p>\n<p>The pair survived by foraging fruit and cassava from the forest and planting corn.<\/p>\n<p>When the foragers saw the two &#8216;jungle men&#8217; from a distance acting abnormally, they alerted local authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Officials set up a team to track them down, and found them yesterday after a five-hour search.<\/p>\n<p>The father could speak a little of the minority Cor language, but the son knew only a few words.<\/p>\n<p>The pair are now undergoing medical check-ups as a first step to being reintegrated into mainstream society.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A father and son have been found living in the jungle of Vietnam four decades&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":28441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221,224,155,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}