Bhubaneswar, Nov. 15 -- In a remarkable tale of survival, a government schoolteacher who had earlier gone missing in floodwater during Cyclone Arnab was rescued alive after spending more than 15 days stranded in a dense forest in Odisha's Kandhamal district, sources said on Sunday.

Mohan Maharana, the teacher at Duba Primary School in Raikia block, was returning home when he went missing amid heavy and incessant rainfall.

Maharana reportedly got swept away by floodwaters for nearly three kilometres. Holding on to a floating tree branch, he somehow managed to get out of the river and took shelter in a rocky crevice. However, injured and severely weakened, he could not find his way out.

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