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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