Kaden Young searchers urge drone owners to stay grounded

Ontario Provincial Police are urging the public to keep their personal drones out of the sky, as they are at times, interfering with the work of police in locating three-year-old KadenYoung who has been missing since last Wednesday.

"We've had some problems with them flying private drones in and around our helicopter,"Const. Paul Nancekivellof DufferinCounty OPP told CBC News on Monday.

"We appreciate their help but we want it to be a safe search as well."

Nancekivellsaid police have their helicopter and the force's drone out to look for Young on Monday.

The OPP dive team is also at the scene.

Young went missing just before 1 a.m. Wednesday after the van his mother was driving got caught up in flood waters near their home in Waldemar, just outside Grand Valley and west of Orangeville.

The van was overtaken by water and swept into the Grand River. As his mother tried to get Young out of the van, he was ripped from her arms by the fast-moving current.

A T-shirt belonging to Young and a booster seat have been located, but there has been no sign of the three-year-old.

At least 200 volunteers combed the banks of the Grand River on the weekend looking for any sign of Young.

The search forYoung isa recovery mission, Nancekivell has said,addingit's unlikelythe childsurvived given the conditions.