A 26-year-old man in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong was found weak but alive after spending a week lost in a local forest, police announced Wednesday.

Nguyen Quang Loc was suffering from extreme exhaustion, when a search team found him, clothing torn off and body ulcerating, inside the Hoa Bac-Hoa Nam forest in Di Linh District.

The man was immediately rushed to the province’s general hospital for emergency treatment, according to Di Linh police.

On October 27, Loc and two friends, Nam and Binh, all Di Linh residents, entered the forest to chop bamboo.

When night fell and Loc still had not returned to the group’s tent, his friends notified police of the disappearance.

Local authorities immediately launched a search party, but it was not until a week later that they found the man, primarily due to the vast area of the forest.

It is not immediately clear how Loc survived seven days alone in the forest, or how he lost all his clothes.

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