Article 5TKJ7 Abducted son finds family by drawing map of village he last saw aged four

Abducted son finds family by drawing map of village he last saw aged four

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Peter Beaumont
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Li Jingwei still recalled key features of his home village 30 years later and made successful appeal for help

Thirty years ago, when Li Jingwei was four years old, a neighbour abducted him from his home village in China's Yunnan province and sold him to a child trafficking ring.

Now he has been reunited with his mother after drawing a map of his home village from his memories of three decades ago and sharing it on a popular video-sharing app in the hope that someone might be able to identify it.

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