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Nectar Gan

About 4,000 people and two helicopters have been searching mountains around a remote village in eastern China for three children who have gone missing, according to a news website report.
The children from Shanghe village in Pujiang county in Zhejiang province left their homes to play outside on Tuesday morning, Zhejiang Online reported.
They were a 12-year-old girl, her seven-year-old brother and a neighbour’s child aged eight.
As night fell, they had still not returned.
The father of the siblings went out to search for them, but to no avail, the report said. He then alerted the police.
Policemen and employees from government departments were deployed to search for the children. They were joined by volunteers from other parts of the province who had heard reports that the children were missing
A total of 4,050 people had joined the search by 5pm on Wednesday.
They were searching an area of 30 square kilometres, but as of 10pm on Wednesday there was no trace of the children.
“ I’m very anxious, too, because my own son is nine years old. I can understand their parents’ feelings,” the pilot of one helicopters involved in the search was quoted as saying. “I did not dare let go of any possible clues or even blink my eyes. I thought it was the children when a plastic bag was flickering in the wind.”
Surveillance camera footage showed the three children on a hillside between their village and a reservoir to the east.
They were last filmed on a stone bridge to the north of the village.
The search is continuing on Thursday.
The reservoir is also to be searched by divers, the report said.


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