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A missing seven-year-old boy has been reunited with his family four months after he accidentally kicked his football inside a freight carriage and became trapped on the moving train as he tried to get it back. Mohamed Fazlu was playing close to the railway tracks when a kick sent his
A missing seven-year-old boy has been reunited with his family four months after he accidentally kicked his football inside a freight carriage and became trapped on the moving train as he tried to get it back. Mohamed Fazlu was playing close to the railway tracks when a kick sent his ball aboard the 5 train, which then carried him 812 miles from his home in Bangalore. He was discovered by railway police in Vellore district, in Tamil Nadu. Local child welfare officials put him in a home for runaways while they began a search for his family, but they started looking in the wrong place after Mohamed told them he was from Mumbai1. Ruby Nakka, the child welfare committee member who led the search, said Mumbai police 10 could find no record of a Mohamed Fazlu being reported missing. His first clue came when carers at the home noticed he could speak Kanadda, a language spoken in the state of Karnataka and common in Bangalore. Despite the boy's insistence that he was from 'Bombay', his carers began to doubt his story and expanded their search to Karnataka. Eventually officers invited local television channels to join their search for the boy's family 15 and got an almost instant result. Mohamed's brother, Roshan Zameer, three, was watching the television when he called out to his parents that Mohamed "has climbed inside the television and was speaking from inside." The family shared an emotional reunion on Thursday in time to celebrate the festival which marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. 20 According to Mr Nakka, the parents' failure to report Mohamed's disappearance made the search almost impossible. "When I asked his father why they had not reported the disappearance, he said 'You know what the police are like, they never help and they ask for bribes'. I have some questions. If it was my son, I would have called the police." 25 He said it was possible the boy had travelled to Mumbai before going on to Vellore. His father, a mechanic and his mother told local reporters they had suffered sleepless nights. The reunion was 'a joyous moment', they said. "We decided to trace him ourselves and decided not to lodge a police complaint". The Daily Telegraph, September 11, 2010. 1 Mumbai: Bombay 11ANT2ME3/LR3/AG3 Page : 2/4 NOTE AUX CANDIDATS Les candidats traiteront les exercices sur la copie