Missing Belgian boy found tied up in field

BELGIAN police found a missing nine-year-old boy alive, but tied up and gagged in a field near the town where he went missing.

They said the boy had head wounds and had been taken to the hospital. The wounds were not life-threatening, police said.

Authorities mobilised a massive search on Saturday after the boy’s mother reported him missing, near a city where two young girls were abducted and killed last month. The boy had gone out to play with a friend near his mother’s house in Verviers.