United KingdomA five-year-old autistic boy named João Gabriel Ferreira dos Santos was found dead in a sewage tank near his family's home in Araucária, Brazil. He told his mother he was going to use the outdoor toilet before disappearing. His parents searched for him for an hour before alerting authorities. A large-scale search involving hundreds of people, including dogs, drones, and volunteers, covered three square kilometers of woodland, ponds, and farmland. After three days, João's body was discovered in a two-meter-deep pool of contaminated water inside a damaged bio-digestor tank used to process organic waste on the farm. The tank's cover had a tear, allowing water to accumulate, and the area had a small gap in the fencing that the child might have slipped through. Firefighters drained the water and located João during this process. Authorities are investigating the incident as a probable accident with no evidence of foul play.
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