A mentally-challenged nine-year-old boy living in Gonagan Aara in Buttala is reported to be missing from last Saturday, Police said.  

They said the boy had gone missing while returning home by himself after going to the paddy field with his father.

Police believe that the child might have gone missing somewhere between Menik Ganga and a sugarcane plantation adjacent to the Yala forest reserve.

His parents had complained to the police on Saturday.