'He was just gone': Police ramp up search for vulnerable 3-year-old boy in Mississauga, Ont.
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Police in Mississauga are conducting a full-scale search of the city’s biggest park for a non-verbal toddler who went missing Thursday evening. Sgt. Jennifer Trimble told reporters Friday morning that there has been no trace of three-year-old Zaid Abdullah since 6:20 p.m., when he was last seen with his parents in Erindale Park, near Dundas Street West and Mississauga Road.
Police in Mississauga are conducting a full-scale search of the city’s biggest park for a non-verbal toddler who went missing Thursday evening.
Sgt. Jennifer Trimble told reporters Friday morning that there has been no trace of three-year-old Zaid Abdullah since 6:20 p.m., when he was last seen with his parents in Erindale Park, near Dundas Street West and Mississauga Road. The toddler was barefoot at the time.
“In a moment, he was just gone,” Trimble said, adding that police are conducting the search on the ground and in the sky with the use of drones.
Access to the park has been blocked off to the public as the search continues. Police said that despite the best intentions of concerned community members, they “don’t need any additional help” locating the child.
“The way it's done is in such a manner that we are able to say where we have searched and then we move on to the next location,” Trimble explained.
Trimble couldn’t say if Zaid is a resident of Mississauga or not, but said his parents remain at the park.
“If it was my child, I would be very concerned. So I can only imagine what the family is going through,” she said, noting that there are overgrown areas within the park as well as water features.
