Boy missing in Tolaga Bay, Gisborne: Desperate search for Axle, 4, overnight
4 May, 2021 09:55 PM
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Missing four-year-old Axel has been found safe and well after a 21-hour ordeal. Video / Shanae Jones / UAWA Live
Missing four-year-old Axel has been found safe and well after a 21-hour ordeal. Video / Shanae Jones / UAWA Live
NZ Herald
The parents of missing boy Axel are beside themselves as the Tolaga Bay community rallies to search for the 4-year-old.
Police and volunteers are desperately scouring the area for the preschooler, who has been missing for more than 20 hours.
The urgent search for Axle, who was last seen at his rural Mangatuna home near Tolaga Bay around lunchtime yesterday, continued before first light today.
The little boy who went missing in Tolaga Bay yesterday appears to have spent the night in a small gully, using pine needles to bed down, according to police.
Missing Tolaga Bay toddler Axle, 3, found safe and well after 21-hour ordeal
5 May, 2021 01:33 AM
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Missing three-year-old Axle found safe and well after a 21-hour ordeal. Video / Shanae Jones / UAWA Live
Missing three-year-old Axle found safe and well after a 21-hour ordeal. Video / Shanae Jones / UAWA Live
NZ Herald
The man who found missing preschooler Axle says the three-year-old boy was very disorientated and calling out to his mum .
The searcher, who gave his name as Peter, told TVNZ it was an emotional moment when he realised he had found the Tolaga Bay boy. I m just a stranger to him but I just said to him that his mum was looking for him.