His mother left a child in a beer crate on the side of a highway, but what shocked passers-by was the fact that next to the youngest son, the oldest was 6 years old. The woman had also left him.

It all happened in Vietnam, Hanoi. Residents of the capital were shocked to discover a child wrapped in a blanket in a beer crate.

Beside him was his older brother, 6, crying in panic to protect him, his arms wrapped around a makeshift basket.

According to the Daily Mail, the two were abandoned by the side of the highway this morning.

The poor boy’s brother said their mother told him he had just ridden his motorcycle to the gas station to buy gas, but she never came back.

Authorities are currently trying to locate the children’s parents.

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