A Vietnamese father and his son have been found in the jungle after more than four decades hiding from the horrors of the Vietnam War.
Ho Van Lang and his 82-year-old father reportedly shunned contact with the outside world after a landmine killed his wife and two children.
They were discovered living in dense foliage in central Quang Ngai province and were barely able to communicate, reports said.
Ho was said by officials to only know a few words of the local Cor dialect.
Vietnamese media reported that Ho's brother succeeded in tracking the pair down 20 years ago, but had not been able to persuade them to return to modern society. While in the jungle, the pair wore only loincloths and used a homemade ax to chop down trees. They survived on corn, fruits and cassava roots from the jungle.
They lived in a tree house, five meters above ground, where they kept arrows for hunting and knives for killing animals.
The older man kept his military trousers neatly folded in a corner as well as the little red coat his son was thought to have been wearing when they fled.
A party of local people who discovered them was reported to be startled by their wild appearance and outlandish gestures.
The US dropped millions of tons of bombs on Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia during the war, which ended in 1975 with the fall of Saigon to North Vietnamese forces.
Father, son discovered hiding in jungle from war for 40 years
