Northern Ireland

Appeal for missing children - aged 11 and 13

Police said last night they were “becoming increasingly concerned” for their whereabouts.
Police said last night they were “becoming increasingly concerned” for their whereabouts. Police said last night they were “becoming increasingly concerned” for their whereabouts.

RELATIVES of two children who went missing yesterday morning mobilised the community in a mass hunt across north Belfast and south Antrim yesterday.

The girl aged 13 and 11-year-old boy were last seen on Crumlin Road in north Belfast, close to Twaddell Avenue at around 1015am.

Searchers were told “it is believed they are heading in the direction of Ligoniel towards the mountains”.

Police said last night they were “becoming increasingly concerned” for their whereabouts, with friends of the 13-year-old girl’s mother who joined the hunt saying the disappearance was “not like her”.

She is described as 4 feet 10 inches tall, with a slim build and has dirty fair hair and was wearing a blue hooded top with bold white writing on the front, black combat style trousers and white Nike Airforce trainers.

The 11-year-old boy is 4 feet 6 inches tall and has a slight build with short brown hair and believed to be wearing a black North Face coat, black tracksuit bottoms and black trainers.

He is carrying a Hugo Boss backpack.

People were asked to search as far afield as Crumlin and Antrim for the pair and begged them to call police if they found her daughter.

Anyone with information was asked to call 101 and quote serial 785 of 11/10/20.