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Search continues for missing toddler

August 16, 2023 12:06 pm

Search continues for missing toddler [Source: Fiji Police Force/Facebook]

Search efforts continue for the missing four-year-old boy who was swept away whilst trying to cross a flooded creek with a relative at Sakoca settlement in Tacirua last night.

Divisional Police Commander South SSP Wate Vocevoce says officers from Valelevu were deployed this morning covering on foot and on a small boat down river.

Vocevoce says search efforts will continue until the child is found, or until the hours of darkness.

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According to Police, the toddler went missing at around 6pm yesterday, when he allegedly tried to cross the flooded creek from Sakoca settlement to Naivurevurenicagi settlement.

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