Specialist divers have been deployed as a frantic search for a toddler who fell into a river from a footbridge while out with his family continues into its second day.
The two-year-old boy has been missing since Sunday evening after he fell into the River Soar, Leicestershire, as his father was rushed to hospital. He has since been released.
Assistant chief constable Michaela Kerr, of Leicestershire Police, said she was confident the boy would be found and officers were doing everything they possibly could.
Emergency services attended the scene just after 5pm and a search and rescue operation, which involves officers from Leicestershire, Nottingham, Lincolnshire and Met police forces, began in Aylestone Meadows, close to Marsden Lane.
In their latest appeal, they requested that members of the public who had spoken to officers come forward again, and that a dog walker who was seen walking along the towpath make contact with the police.
The father, who was taken to hospital as a as a precautionary measure, was believed to have followed the boy into the river.
