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Search for missing five-year-old | Search for missing five-year-old |
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A major search is under way for a five-year-old boy missing on Teesside. | A major search is under way for a five-year-old boy missing on Teesside. |
Rhys Moorhead was last seen playing in his grandparents' garden at Celandine Close in the Marton area of Middlesbrough at 0930 BST. | Rhys Moorhead was last seen playing in his grandparents' garden at Celandine Close in the Marton area of Middlesbrough at 0930 BST. |
Cleveland Police said they had deployed all their available resources for the search. | Cleveland Police said they had deployed all their available resources for the search. |
Rhys is 4ft 3ins with blond hair, blue eyes and of medium build. He was wearing jeans, maroon trainers and a red short-sleeved hooded top. | Rhys is 4ft 3ins with blond hair, blue eyes and of medium build. He was wearing jeans, maroon trainers and a red short-sleeved hooded top. |
Police said Rhys's bicycle, which is red or orange, had also gone missing. | |
'Just disappeared' | |
They said initial searches of the area had been carried out with no success and they were becoming "increasingly concerned". | They said initial searches of the area had been carried out with no success and they were becoming "increasingly concerned". |
Brian Moorhead, Rhys's great-uncle, said the boy's grandparents, Tony and Sharon Moorhead, were "distraught" | |
Mr Moorhead, 57 and from Middlesbrough, said: "Tony said to me he just disappeared off the face of the earth. | |
"One minute he was there, the next he was gone. I'm worried and shocked." |