USA, child disappears with father and is found buried alive. Safe

The 11-month-old was locked in a dog crate and wrapped in a towel that may have helped create an air pocket. He is now hospitalized

They found him buried alive, in a dog cage, wrapped in a towel. An 11-month-old baby who was taken from his father has been rescued in South Carolina, US, following an emergency search. The news is reported by ABC. The child was found "at the end of his life" after spending what was believed to be 24 hours buried, according to Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon. “He was crying with the happiest sound you could ever hear from a crying baby,” the sheriff said, clearly moved.

Disappeared with his father

The child had been entrusted to the care of his twenty-five-year-old father at the home of the child's mother while she ran an errand. Another person assigned to look after the child was arriving at the house, but when she arrived, father and son were already gone, the sheriff explained. Lexington County deputies located the man late Monday in the Batesburg-Leesville area, but the child was nowhere to be found, authorities said.

Found near the paternal grandfather's house

A search team made up of almost 100 rescuers began looking for the child and on the afternoon of November 10, while combing the area near his paternal grandfather's house, they found "freshly disturbed" soil in the woods. "As they probed the ground, moved it and started digging, you could hear the little boy crying - said the sheriff - it was a race against time". The sheriff believes the towel he had been wrapped in contributed to an "air pocket." The child is currently hospitalized and "hopefully will make a full recovery."