An autistic teenager who went missing in freezing conditions in mountainous terrain in Australia has been found alive after three days - and asked rescuers for a McDonald's meal.
William Callaghan, 15, was found by a volunteer searcher in bushland at Mount Disappointment, in Victoria, who talked about his favourite show Thomas the Tank Engine to calm him.
A police helicopter then located the boy from above and he was coaxed into a rescue vehicle - much to the delight of mum Penny Callaghan and step-dad Nathan Ezard, reports 9News.
Mrs Callaghan - who was astonished her son was found alive after so long - said he had used sign language to indicate he was scared. "I can't imagine what he has been feeling and going through," she said, adding
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