A huge search had been launched for the boy who disappeared after playing with dogs near his family home. Picture: Tuva Online 
 
 The young boy survived by eating his own supply of chocolate, and his good sense finding a dry makeshift bed under a larch tree. His rescue was personally announced by the head of Tuva Republic, Sholban Kara-Ool, who blogged: 'Hurray! Little Tserin has been found alive! 
 
 'They discovered him earlier this morning after a search in the taiga some 3 kilometres from the village of Khut.' 
 
 A huge search had been launched for the boy who disappeared after playing with dogs near his family home in the forests of Piy-Khemsky district. He may have followed a young puppy into the woodland despite the watchful eye of his great grandmother - who was in charge of him when he was lost. 
 
 'Hurray! Little Tserin has been found alive! They discovered him earlier this morning after a search in the taiga some 3 kilometres from the village of Khut.' Picture: Sholban Kara-ool 
 
 More than 100 people including Russian Emergency Ministry's rescuers, police, volunteers, as well as close and distant family members joined the frantic hunt. A helicopter over flew a search area of some 120 square km. 
 
 Regional emergencies' chief Ayas Saryglar said: 'Of course, the situation was very dangerous. The River Mynas is fast and cold. If a small child fell in, it would be certain death. 
 
 'There are wolves, and bears in the forest. The bears are now fattening for the winter. They can attack anything that moves. In addition, it is warm during the day, but at night there are even frosts. If we consider that the kid disappeared during the day, he was not properly dressed - only a shirt and shoes, no coat.' 
 
 Regional head Sholban Kara-Ool explained: 'He recognised his uncle's voice calling his name, and called back. Once his uncle hugged him, the little boy asked if his toy car was okay. He said that he had some chocolate which he ate during the first day. 
 
 His home village Khut has a population of around 400. There are 63 houses, and locals all joined together to hunt for the missing child. Picture: The Siberian Times 
 
 'Then he found a dry place under a larch tree and slept there between the roots. The whole village is throwing a party to celebrate his survival. He was given the second name of Mowgli. 
 
 'It is now predicted he will become a rescuer himself, because he showed incredible stamina for his age by surviving for so long alone in these cold woods.' 
 
 Searches had gone on day and night. His home village Khut has a population of around 400. There are 63 houses, and locals all joined together to hunt for the missing child. 
 
 Doctors say he has suffered no serious damage from his ordeal. 
 
 His father serves in the army, and most of his family were gathering in the last hay in the fields when he vanished. ||||| A three-year-old boy has been rescued after spending 72 hours alone in the bear and wolf-infested Siberian forest. The child had ended up stranded deep within the taiga after getting carried away playing with puppies near his home in Russia’s remote Tuva Republic. 
 
 With night temperatures close to zero and not a living soul in sight, those were possibly the three longest days and nights in Tserin Dopchut’s entire life. 
 
 The boy nibbled on chocolate left in his pockets and slept under a dry larch tree. It was a dangerous place to stay, though – the local River Mynas is cold and fast, and any who fall into it would stand little chance of surviving. Added to that is the threat from the bears and wolves that prowl the forest. 
 
 A massive search had been launched to find the child, with more than 100 people – including the Russian Emergency Ministry, police, volunteers, neighbors, friends and family members – burning the midnight oil in an attempt to find their little Tserin. 
 
 To make sure it was not a case of kidnapping, police first raided 63 houses in the village of Khut, home to some 400 people. 
 
 Tserin was nowhere to be found, however. 
 
 Tuva residents then launched a #FindTserin hashtag on social media platforms. 
 
 The rescuers split up into several small groups to scour the taiga forest around the boy’s house centimeter by centimeter, hoping against hope to find him alive. 
 
 “We’ve walked 30 sq km by foot and flown over 125 sq km on the Mi-8 helicopter,” Luisa Namchy, spokesperson for Tyva’s Emergency Ministry, told Komsomolskaya Pravda. 
 
 On the third day, the rescuers began to search though the area south of the village. Tserin’s relatives discovered the boy in the field, about 3km away from his village. 
 
 “All shouted the boy’s name and... Well done, kid! He responded to the call of his uncle!” Ayas Saryglar, head of Tyva’s Civil Defense and Emergencies agency, told the newspaper. 
 
 “Once in the hands of a loved one, the first thing he asked about was his toy car. Then he said he had eaten all the chocolate in his pockets, then he relaxed, and finally fell asleep.” 
 
 The child had signs of exhaustion and hypothermia, and was flown to the nearby town of Kyzyl to receive professional medical care. 
 
 Tserin has instantly turned into a local celebrity, with fellow villagers praising him for his courage and stamina. Many say the little boy who survived in the woods should become a professional rescuer when he grows up and a role model for others. ||||| Image copyright Tuva emergency services Image caption The survival of three-year-old Tserin Dopchut has been described as a miracle 
 
 A three-year-old boy survived alone for 72 hours in a forest in the remote Russian region of Siberia, in an area renowned for being inhabited by wolves and bears. 
 
 Tserin Dopchut only had a small bar of chocolate in his pocket when he wandered into the woodland. 
 
 He slept on a dry makeshift bed under a larch tree, The Siberian Times said. 
 
 A huge land and air search was launched to find the boy, who may have been following a puppy when he vanished. 
 
 The child had been under the care of his great grandmother, local media reported, but he ventured off near the village of Khut, located amid dense forestry in the Tuva Republic when her back was turned. 
 
 Image copyright Tuva government Image caption The child was found tired and hungry but otherwise in good medical condition 
 
 Image copyright Tuva government Image caption A huge search operation was launched to find the toddler 
 
 For 72 hours the child braved plummeting temperatures, the threat of wild animals and the danger of falling into a fast-flowing river before he was eventually rescued by his uncle. 
 
 "The situation was very dangerous. The River Mynas is fast and cold. If a small child fell in, it would be certain death," Ayas Saryglar, head of Tyva's Civil Defense and Emergencies agency, told the Siberian Times. 
 
 "There are wolves, and bears in the forest. The bears are now fattening for the winter. They can attack anything that moves. 
 
 "In addition, it is warm during the day, but at night there are even frosts. If we consider that the kid disappeared during the day, he was not properly dressed - only a shirt and shoes, no coat." 
 
 A day and night search operation to find the child involved villagers, local policemen and even a helicopter scouring a vast area of about 120 square km. 
 
 Another official told local media that the child was saved after recognising his uncle's voice calling his name. After being hugged, his first question was whether his toy car was okay. 
 
 Rescuers were quick to praise the toddler's initiative - he found a dry place under a larch tree and slept between its roots. 
 
 "The whole [of his] village is throwing a party to celebrate his survival," regional leader Sholban Kara-Ool was quoted as saying. 
 
 The boy has now been nicknamed Mowgli, The Siberian Times reported. Mowgli is the fictional orphan in Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book novels, 
 
 "It is now predicted he will become a rescuer himself," the paper said, "because he showed incredible stamina for his age by surviving for so long alone in these cold woods." 
 
 Doctors say that Tserin suffered no serious injuries from his ordeal.
– A 3-year-old boy in Siberia has been given the nickname Mowgli after he survived three days in a bear-infested forest as temperatures neared 32 degrees. Tserin Dopchut had been playing with dogs near his home in the village of Khut when he wandered into the forest on Sunday, possibly while chasing a puppy, reports the Guardian. Without a coat and with only a chocolate bar in his pocket, he seemingly vanished in the harsh landscape, home to wolves and bears. After three days of land and air searches, however, Tserin responded to calls from his uncle and was found safe, almost two miles from his village. He showed signs of exhaustion and hypothermia, per RT, but immediately "asked if his toy car was OK," regional leader Sholban Kara-Ool tells the Siberian Times. Tserin—now dubbed Mowgli, referring to the character from the Jungle Book, per the BBC—explained he ate his chocolate and, to try to escape frost at night, "found a dry place under a larch tree and slept there between the roots," Kara-Ool says. An official noted just how potentially perilous an experience the child survived: "The bears are now fattening for the winter. They can attack anything that moves." Kara-Ool says a celebration will be thrown for Tserin. (This boy survived in the wilderness thanks to a tip from his dad.)