Mystery surrounds the movements of a five-year-old who briefly went missing in Dundee on Sunday afternoon.
It’s understood that the youngster became separated from the adults in whose care he was, sparking a frantic search of the city centre.
A number of police officers scoured the area for the child, while Police Scotland Tayside Division appealed for help to find him.
Users of social media swiftly made their own appeals for residents to be on the look-out for the boy and to contact local officers with any information.
The youngster was then traced minutes later, apparently safe and well, in the city’s Balfield Road more than two miles from where they were first reported missing.
Police Scotland confirmed the youngster had been found and initially said there had been nothing sinister or suspicious about the incident.
It emerged, however, that that they had no indication of how the youngster had travelled such a distance in such a short space of time.
A spokesman said: “Inquiries are still ongoing and officers are speaking to the youngster, his parents and the people who were in charge of him in the city centre.
“We are trying to establish how he made his way to the location at which he was eventually found.”