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Updated March 28th, 2020 at 10:56 IST

Sheriff: Girl, 4, found in woods; had been missing 2 days

Searchers on Friday found a 4-year-old girl who had been missing for two days in a wooded area in east Alabama.

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Searchers on Friday found a 4-year-old girl who had been missing for two days in a wooded area in east Alabama.

The girl was in good condition with a dog at her side when rescuers approached, authorities said.

Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones said searchers found Vadie Sides after two days of searching in some woods in that eastern Alabama county.

Authorities said the child had disappeared from her babysitter's sight Wednesday afternoon while they were walking in a backyard with a hound dog.

Jones said the girl is in good condition despite her ordeal. The hound dog was at her side when the girl was found but it ran off when searchers approached, the sheriff said.

“We are beyond happy," Jones wrote in a text message about the discovery of the girl.

Multiple agencies and hundreds of volunteers had searched remote woods with a creek running through it.

A member of the search team that found the girl told media outlet

He said the girl drank some Gatorade offered to her and was talking “like it was no big deal” what she had been through.

Jones said authorities were hopeful the dog would return home now that the girl had been found.

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Published March 28th, 2020 at 10:56 IST

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