Beautiful moment two boys discover their beloved younger brother AJ has been found alive after three days in the bush
- Three-year-old Anthony ‘AJ’ Elfalak found alive north-west of Sydney
- His brothers had been among those searching for him for four days
- They called him ‘the utimate warrior’ in emotional live TV interviews
Two brothers of three-year-old Anthony ‘AJ’ Elfalak have expressed their utter relief at rescue teams finding him alive.
Patrick and Michael Elfalak had just heard their three-year-old brother had survived after a search lasting three days.
‘Happy, so happy,’ Patrick said when interviewed live on Channel Nine.
‘I am going to hug him, I don’t know…’ he said.
‘At first I thought we wouldn’t find him but I knew the helicopters would find him because the helicopters are very high up, they can see anything.’
AJ’s brothers embrace their father Anthony after their brother was alive near the family property
Two of AJ’s brothers embrace another family member after their brother was discovered
Three-year-old Anthony ‘AJ’ Elfalak was missing near the family property at Putty north-west of Sydney for three days
The brothers described AJ as ‘the ultimate survivor’.
‘He is stronger than me and Patrick. We never walked without someone.
‘AJ is the bravest baby we ever had. We never seen brave baby like that but we know we have.’
The boy is now with his parents in an ambulance and headed back to the search command post to be assessed by paramedics.
AJ, who has autism and is non-verbal, went missing from his family’s porch – with his mother saying he was out of her sight for just a matter of seconds.
He’d been playing with his brothers Michael, Patrick and Alexander at the time.
His mother initially thought the boy had been abducted.
‘He’s been taken. If he was around here, I would have found him by now,’ Ms Elfalak said earlier.
‘I have searched the property… I’m still driving around and I cannot find him. If he was here, he’d be close to the property.’
A 1987 dual-cab Toyota Hilux on the property when AJ went missing remains part of a police investigation, after fears the boy’s disappearance was part of an abduction attempt.
Police had earlier called on one of the brothers to re-enact what happened at the time when AJ went missing.
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