A man searching for his elderly father, missing for almost 10 years, was horrified to find him in filthy clothes being filmed by a TikTok user.
Heartbreaking videos, which have notched up a large following on the platform, show the 71-year-old apparently living in a hovel and feeding on scraps on a mountainside in China.
In numerous videos, a cameraman asks for help to look after the vulnerable man. The elderly man – called Long Jiaming by his supposed son – can be seen wearing the same ripped and dirty clothes in all the videos and looks unkempt.
In one, the pensioner scoops water out of a large vat and drinks from it before pouring some into a metal container filled with rice.
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