'As soon as he heard his mum he opened his eyes and looked at her and fell asleep.'
Three-year-old Anthony"AJ" Elfalak has been found alive after going missing from his family's rural property in the NSW Hunter on Friday.
Police say he was found on a nearby riverbank by a rescue helicopter, which directed ground search crews to his location.A three-year-old child missing on a rural property in the Hunter region since Friday has been located following a large-scale search.The boy survived three nights alone in the bush in temperatures that dipped as low as three degrees.
"Thank you for everyone. Thank you for the government. Thank you for the police. Thank you very much," AJ's mother Kelly Elfalak told Nine News.
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