French, British police hunt 'kidnapped' brain tumour boy


RENNES, France: British and French authorities are racing against the clock on Friday to find a five-year-boy with a brain tumour whom officials in France believe was "kidnapped" from hospital by his family.

Ashya King's parents took him from a hospital in Southampton, southern England, on Thursday, without doctors' consent and boarded a ferry to the French port of Cherbourg the same day, a British police spokesman said.

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