Illegally entering the forest at Yeoor Range of Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) turned into a scary nightmare for three youngsters after they lost their way inside the forest. After close to an eight-hour-long search operation by Forest Department teams along with the villagers and police, the three youngsters were rescued at 3.30 am.

On Monday, Shardul Lingayat, Aniket Sengupta and Kunal Jadhav, who live in Vasant Vihar at Thane entered Yeoor forest and lost their way. Around 5.30 pm, one of the boys managed to get the signal on his phone and fearing that they might get lost further in the deep forest, sent the GPS location to his mother.