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Since Monday, there has been no trace of Arian Arnold, a toddler from Lower Saxony, who slipped out of the house in the evening. The boy was seen on a surveillance camera shortly afterwards, but since then there has been no trace of him.
Wearing socks and a thin, ocher yellow sweater, Arian Arnold, a six-year-old toddler, disappeared from his home in Bremervörde (Lower Saxony) on Monday evening around 7:15 PM. Since then, there has been no trace of the child. “The boy only recently learned how to open locked doors,” police told a news conference. A surveillance camera close to the house recorded Arnold, but after that the trail comes to a dead end. According to the police, the search is seriously complicated by the fact that Arnold “does not answer” when you speak to him. The child has a severe autism spectrum disorder.
More than 400 firefighters and volunteers combed the forests in the area. With dogs and drones, because time is running out to find him alive, with temperatures hovering around freezing at night. Sonar boats were even deployed at a nearby river to find Arnold, but all efforts were in vain.
Out of desperation, the police took a special approach. The child may have been hiding, she reasons. And because the six-year-old child is fascinated by balloons, they hang up here and there in his village. There is always a small camera hanging in their neighborhood, which hopefully picks up a trace of the child. Local residents were asked to check vacant sheds or garages.
