Parents leave boy 'as punishment'
Seven-year-old Yamato is missing in the bear-infested mountains of Hokkaido.HE IS just seven years old, has been missing for two days, and now his parents have admitted they left their son in the mountains of north Japan as ‘punishment’.Yamato Tanooka has been lost in the Hokkaido mountains since Saturday, with his parents conceding yesterday he had not got lost as they hiked and foraged for vegetables as they first told police.Now they have admitted they lied, and abandoned him in the area popu..>> view originalFive UN peacekeepers killed in Mali attack: UN, police sources
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