Girl found after 5 days in swamp
11-year-old is alive and well, but hungry and mosquito-bitten
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WINTER SPRINGS, Fla. - An 11-year-old girl missing for five days in an alligator-infested Florida swamp has been found alive, police said Tuesday to NBC News.
Nadia Bloom, who is thought to have a mild form of autism, was said to be in good shape, according to local news organization WESH.com, but was tired, hungry and covered in mosquito bites.
The Metro Church said Tuesday that one of its members found the child and a spokesperson for her family also confirmed that she had been found alive and well, WESH.com said.
Concern for the girl was growing after police exhausted every possible tip during an all-out search that began last Friday when Nadia disappeared from her Winter Springs neighborhood.
NBC's Orlando station said the girl would be taken to South Seminole Hospital for a checkup.
Winter Springs officials had not been soliciting help from volunteers in the search, NBC Orlando said, but the Metro Church member, James King, and others from the church decided to carry out their own search.
"Obviously, we are ecstatic. Unbelievable good news," Church pastor Dan Holland said, according to NBC Orlando.
Holland told the station that a search team of about 35 to 40 men worked through the night Monday. He said the searchers prayed, asking the Lord to lead them to Nadia, then walked straight into the swamp and found her, NBC Orlando said.
"The hand of God ...," Holland told the news station. "However someone is found alive, I don't care. We are just ecstatic."
11-year-old is alive and well, but hungry and mosquito-bitten
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WINTER SPRINGS, Fla. - An 11-year-old girl missing for five days in an alligator-infested Florida swamp has been found alive, police said Tuesday to NBC News.
Nadia Bloom, who is thought to have a mild form of autism, was said to be in good shape, according to local news organization WESH.com, but was tired, hungry and covered in mosquito bites.
The Metro Church said Tuesday that one of its members found the child and a spokesperson for her family also confirmed that she had been found alive and well, WESH.com said.
Concern for the girl was growing after police exhausted every possible tip during an all-out search that began last Friday when Nadia disappeared from her Winter Springs neighborhood.
NBC's Orlando station said the girl would be taken to South Seminole Hospital for a checkup.
Winter Springs officials had not been soliciting help from volunteers in the search, NBC Orlando said, but the Metro Church member, James King, and others from the church decided to carry out their own search.
"Obviously, we are ecstatic. Unbelievable good news," Church pastor Dan Holland said, according to NBC Orlando.
Holland told the station that a search team of about 35 to 40 men worked through the night Monday. He said the searchers prayed, asking the Lord to lead them to Nadia, then walked straight into the swamp and found her, NBC Orlando said.
"The hand of God ...," Holland told the news station. "However someone is found alive, I don't care. We are just ecstatic."