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Search Crews Scour Rural Area Near Courtenay, B.C., For Missing Toddler

Darpan News Desk, 15 Aug, 2016 10:01 AM
    COMOX, B.C. — An official with Comox Valley Search and Rescue on Vancouver Island confirms a search is underway for a missing three-year-old boy.
     
    A team member, who would only give his first name, says a large-scale search is underway in the Union Bay area, south of Courtenay.
     
    He says the toddler has been missing since about 9 p.m. Sunday.
     
    An air and ground search is underway.
     
    The RCMP could not be reached for comment.
     
    The search for the boy was first reported by local media and Global News quotes a neighbour as saying the child was on a bicycle when he disappeared in the rural area.

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