Missing Cooloongup toddler found safe and well

Monday, 6 May 2019 12:11

By Monique Welhan

Local residents and police have found a two-year-old boy after he went missing from his Cooloongup home.

It is believed the boy climbed the fence of his home on Timberlane Loop just after 9am on Monday and wandered off.

Police issued an urgent appeal to find the toddler who was last seen heading towards bushland.

He was found a short time later safe and well.

Local residents and Rockingham Police locate a missing 2yo in Cooloongup. With his fence climbing ability he might be a future police officer #fb pic.twitter.com/VBl2GQjtV4
— Rockingham Police (@RockinghamPol) May 6, 2019

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