‘Jungle girl’ all set to return with Vietnamese family

Ratanakkiri province’s “jungle girl” will return to her Vietnamese home this weekend after a decade of being parted from her birth family thanks to a case of mistaken identity.

Tak, as her recently discovered family calls her, was discovered wandering in a forest in 2007 and was claimed by an ethnic Jarai family. The Lou family believed her to be their daughter P’nhieng, who disappeared as a young girl while herding buffalo in 1989.

But a shocking twist in an already bewildering story came late last month when a Vietnamese man named Pel, 70, turned up with official documents that appeared to prove “P’nhieng” was actually Tak, his daughter with a mental disability – as well as some distinguishing features – who went missing in 2006.

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