Joe from Oldenburg is alive: Missing eight-year-old found in Gulli

For more than a week, the relatives have been worried about eight-year-old Joe from Oldenburg.

Joe from Oldenburg is alive: Missing eight-year-old found in Gulli

For more than a week, the relatives have been worried about eight-year-old Joe from Oldenburg. Now the missing child is found alive - in a gully. And that just a few hundred meters from where he lives.

After more than a week, a missing eight-year-old was found alive in Oldenburg. "8-year-old Joe is alive," wrote the Oldenburg police on Twitter. The boy was found in a gully. He is currently being taken to a hospital and treated there. According to a police spokesman, the site is about 300 meters from the boy's place of residence, reports the "Bild" newspaper.

The mentally handicapped boy was last seen on Friday a week ago (June 17). On Thursday, the police spoke of indications that Joe could have been the victim of a crime. In addition to the special organization organizing the search, a homicide squad had been set up.