Mikaeel Kular search: Hunt goes on through the night
An image released on Thursday shows Mikaeel in the jacket he was thought to have been wearing when he went missing Family, neighbours and the emergency services have searched through the night for a three-year-old boy who has been missing since Wednesday evening.
Mikaeel Kular was last seen when his mother put him to bed in his home in Ferry Gait Crescent, Edinburgh.
A nearby community centre has been kept open as a meeting point for people who have offered to help the search.
The charity Missing People will be showing Mikaeel's face on big screens in public places such as rail stations.
Police urged anyone with information to telephone the 0300 200 0200 number and asked local residents to check their gardens, sheds, parks and lock-ups.
Police Scotland said that more than 100 people have already called the hotline.
Specialist teams are on standby and ready to act on any significant information provided, they added.
A police helicopter, sniffer dogs, coastguard and lifeboat teams have all been involved in the ongoing search.
Mikaeel Kular was last seen going to bed on Wednesday evening The temperature dropped to around 3C in Edinburgh on Thursday night.
Overnight, police issued a photograph showing the boy in the coat he was believed to be wearing when he disappeared - a beige hooded jacket with grey fur-lined hood.
He may also have been wearing black gloves with multi-coloured fingers, dark navy blue jogging bottoms, a grey pyjama top featuring an embroidered turquoise dinosaur on the chest and brown Clark shoes with two Velcro straps.
He is 3ft tall and has a faded scar on the bridge of his nose and a sore on the left side of his mouth.
Police Scotland said on Thursday there was no evidence to suggest criminality at the moment, but officers were "keeping an open mind."
Earlier Supt Liz McAnish thanked the local community for their support and assistance, urging "anyone who thinks they may know where Mikaeel is to get in touch if they haven't done so already."
She confirmed there had been no sightings of the missing boy, and no signs of a door being left open in the property.
She was not aware of anyone else having access to the flat, she said.
Responding to reporters' questions on Thursday night Supt McAinsh said it Mikaeel would have been capable of opening doors and leaving the house by himself.
A number of people were helping officers with their inquiries, the officer said, but there were no suspects, and had been no arrests or formal detentions.
Mikaeel, who is British with Asian parents, was at home with his mother and four siblings, including his twin sister, when he was last seen.
He normally sleeps in the same room as his twin sister, police said, but was alone on Wednesday.
Officers are speaking to "all family members" about the disappearance, including Mikaeel's father, who is understood to be of Pakistani origin.
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