French authorities have been looking since Saturday for a two-year-old boy who disappeared while playing in the garden of his grandparents’ house in Vernet, in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
Emily. two years old, disappeared at 6 p.m. Saturday. According to the French newspaper Le Figaro, the child’s grandparents alerted the emergency services in the late afternoon of the same day. Authorities began looking for the child and a case was filed for “disturbing disappearance”.
According to testimonies quoted in the French newspaper, the child left “from the grandparents’ place of residence” on Saturday and was “seen by two people in a downhill street”. “Here we lost track of him,” Digne-les-Bains prosecutor Rémy Avon said at a press conference in Vernet on Sunday.
“The searches covered a radius of five kilometers around the grandparents’ house,” added the mayor of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Marc Chappuis, who was also present.
On Monday morning, the search perimeter was increased. “The searches have resumed and intensified,” François Balique, mayor of Le Vernet, told AFP.
Cinema teams, two helicopters, drones, police and fire brigade, 200 volunteers and ten dog teams are participating in the searches.
The child is described as having “brown eyes, blond hair and five feet tall”. He was wearing a yellow t-shirt and white shorts with a green pattern and hiking boots at the time.
Source: DN
