China: walking 150 miles to visit her grandmother

A 11 year old boy has walked alone for 11 days on a highway with only 24 surviving Chinese yuan (less than three euros). The Chinese press reports. As did the police know the kid would have traveled about 150 km from the town of Shishi, Fujian Province to return Jiangxi Province where he was born and where his grandmother lives. The child said having bought over the 11-day walk 5 bottles of water and two loaves of bread. Once the water, not having more money, the baby was quenched by drinking from the taps at service stations. At night he fell asleep in the parking areas along the road. The eleven year old is originally from the province of Jiangxi where he lived with his grandmother because his parents, migrant workers, had moved into the province of Fujian. Recently, however, the parents had taken him away from his grandmother's house. On July 14, however, the child, tired of staying with her ​​parents in Fujian (as he said his father was studying there, too) 4 yuan he stole from a drawer and fled. Along the way a man gave him another 20 yuan. His adventure ended on the morning of July 24 when some workmen who were working on the road they found the boy thin and dehydrated, and handed him over to police who then contacted the family.