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| Firefighters said the animal stayed with the child throughout the night |
Firefighters
in Poland say a small dog likely saved the life of a three-year-old girl who
went missing from her home overnight in freezing temperatures.
The child,
Julia, vanished on Friday and was found lying in marshes several kilometres
from her house on Saturday morning, with the dog by her side.
She is now
in hospital in western Poland, suffering from frostbite after temperatures fell
to -5C (23F).
Firefighter
Grzegorz Szymanski said the dog kept the child warm enough to live.
"For
the whole night the animal was with the girl, it never left her. Remember, it
was 5 degrees below zero and the child was wet," he said, adding that the
animal was the most important factor in the girl's survival.
More than
200 people had searched for the child overnight. It is thought she spent the
night wandering through the forest near her home in the village of Pierzwin.
She was
eventually discovered by firefighters after she was heard crying for her
mother.
I am from san carlos cojedes venezuela. I saw the news in bbc at 10:30. It'$ amazing to hear such a good knews in a world full of hatred. God bless the childs
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