A 12-year-old missing boy with autism has been found safe and well after vanishing two days ago in Western Sydney. In the end, Hussein Al Mansoory, who is non-verbal, was discovered just metres away from the local police station.
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00:00 Two days of anguish turns into pure relief.
00:07 After disappearing more than 50 hours earlier, 12-year-old Hussein Al Mansouri was found by a staff member inside a stairwell at this Auburn Medical Centre.
00:17 Right near the local police station and just 300 metres from where he was last seen at Auburn Memorial Park.
00:25 He was found well, he smiled, he was sitting up. He's been taken to hospital just for a check-up but on all accounts he's doing well.
00:33 His family receiving the call they had been desperately waiting for.
00:38 His family were told immediately that we'd found him and they were ecstatic and attended the scene straight away.
00:44 The 12-year-old went missing from his home on Saturday morning. At one point he was captured on CCTV at the nearby train station.
00:53 More than 200 volunteers searched day and night.
00:58 Stopping at nothing to find the boy who has autism and Down syndrome and is non-verbal.
01:06 We were told that Hussein's favourite song is Bohemian Rhapsody so we were singing a couple of bars as we were going around.
01:11 I couldn't sleep last night. I was online searching if there was any updates and I had to come out here today.
01:19 I have a child with autism as well so I feel for those parents.
01:24 Locals never gave up hope until the news finally broke.
01:29 Being part of the Auburn community I haven't been prouder. I saw people from the age of 70 down to the age of 7, my son's age, working effortlessly around the clock searching.
01:41 Finding Hussein was the main priority but police say they still need to piece together the timeline of how the 12-year-old ended up here and how long he was inside.
01:51 But for now the Al Mansouri family has the answer they needed most.
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