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A 27-year-old reindeer herder who went missing last month in Russia’s far eastern Chukotka Peninsula has been found alive despite not eating for 16 days.

Officials in the town of Egvekinot said on January 8 that the man, whose identity was not disclosed, was traveling to a nearby village on a snowmobile on December 21 when he lost his way in a heavy blizzard.

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