According to a BBC report on Saturday, the boy, who took a drugs overdose has been saved after the American girl he was chatting online alerted her mother who in turn reported to the police.
The 16-year-old boy from Oxfordshire, UK, had sent her a message suggesting he intended to commit suicide. That was on last Wednesday, April 1.
Although the girl in Maryland, US, did not know where he lived, she told her mother who called local police. The police called a "special agent" at the White House, the British Embassy in Washington and finally the police control room in Abingdon, UK.
The Abingdon police narrowed down the teenager´s location to eight possible addresses, and they found him at the fourth house they tried. He had taken a drug overdose, but was still conscious, the report said.
The boy, who has not been named, recovered after hospital treatment.
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