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.
