A lacking 64-year-old Wisconsin dad with diabetes and a coronary heart situation was discovered Tuesday after he received misplaced for days whereas on a mountaineering tour in a dense Puerto Rican rainforest
Abdur Rahman grew to become separated from his household whereas on trip within the El Yunque Nationwide Forest on Sunday, native media outlet El Vocero, reported.
Rescuers sprung into motion to seek for Rahman and located the 64-year-old close to the Icacos River in Naguabo — about 40 miles outdoors San Juan, the Workplace of Emergency Administration posted on X.
Six teams of rescuers, geared up with canines and a drone, combed tirelessly via the forest — recognized for its waterfalls, rivers, and thick vegetation — for 3 days earlier than discovering the vacationer.
Officers battled harsh circumstances whereas monitoring down Rahman, commissioner of the Municipal Police of Río Grande, Antonio Rosa, instructed El Vocero.
“It has been raining this morning. We have a lot of fog that is slowing us down, but we have to trust in human resources and their capacity,” Rosa mentioned on the day Rahman was discovered.
Rosa escalated the vital search efforts when Rahman’s household knowledgeable them that the patriarch was identified with diabetes and had a coronary heart situation.
Rahman was discovered after a rescue workforce found footprints on a street and dominated out “areas within the search perimeter,” and was transported by ambulance to a neighborhood hospital.
Rahman’s daughter, Mehreen Asra, feared her father was useless.
“I never thought we’d find him alive,” she instructed WDJT.
Arsa mentioned that a few of her relations took a facet path whereas on the hike to achieve a lookout spot to take photographs, however observed her father vanished when he wasn’t with them on the principle path.
Her husband, Fazal Hunzai, knew they couldn’t waste any time.
Hunzai had additionally taken the unsuitable path and returned to the household on the principle path after being rotated for “almost an hour” and feared his father-in-law had additionally gotten misplaced.
“I told my wife, ‘Can you please call 911 right away. Because it sounds like he’s missing,’” Hunzai recalled.
After police intervened to assist with the search, they had been instructed to return to their Airbnb when it grew to become too darkish and harmful for them to wander round.
“When we didn’t find him for 24 hours, I thought he fell somewhere and he passed away,” Arsa instructed the outlet.
By the third day, his daughter was on the point of settle for the truth that she could by no means see her dad alive once more.
“We almost gave up,” she painstakingly revealed.
Nonetheless, their hope was restored after they received phrase on a rescue radio that Rahman was discovered alive a few 15-hour stroll from the place he received separated.
“He said, ‘Yes, he is alive.’ I jumped like a little baby, hugging, like a piggyback hug, the police officer,” Hunzai recalled.
His son-in-law mentioned they noticed Rahman earlier than he was taken to the hospital, and he seemed to be in good condition and was discharged on Wednesday.
“His first words was, ‘I’m hungry,’” Hunzai mentioned.
Arsa mentioned her father didn’t eat the entire time he was lacking, didn’t sleep within the two days main as much as him being discovered. and was rained on “continuously” on his closing night time within the wilderness.
Rahman suffered a number of scrapes however had no important accidents.
