/ 24 December 1998

MISSING GIRL FOUND

A FIVE-year-old girl who went missing on a farm near Porterville in the Western Cape on Sunday was found on a neighbouring farm on Thursday. She apparently spent four nights on her own in the bushes next to a river. After searches by farm workers and police failed, two brothers on a neighbouring farm found a girl on their property and recognised her as Foria Malgas, the missing girl. She told police she slept in the bushes and drank river water for four days. Foria was taken to Lapa Munnik hospital at Porterville for treatment.

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