Police launch search for missing boy in Belgium

Belgian police said they mobilised a mass search for a missing nine-year-old boy today near a city where two young girls were abducted and killed last month.

The boy went out to play with a friend on Friday near his mother’s house in Verviers, a town just east of Liege and about 80 miles east of Brussels. His parents reported him missing after he didn’t return home, authorities said.