Police and prosecutors confirmed Thursday the body found earlier this weekon a farm in Behrste, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) west of Hamburg in Germany, was the missing six-year-old child Arian.
The 6-year-old who was living with Autism and went missing in April.
There were no indications of foul play, investigators said.
The Institute of Forensic Medicine Hamburg-Eppendorf confirmed the boy’s identity through a DNA test.
Farmer found Arian’s body
Arian was last seen leaving his parents’ home on April 22. Hundreds of helpers and emergency services searched for the boy for days without success.
A farmer discovered the body on Monday afternoon while mowing a meadow in the municipality of Behrste, to the north of Elm, police said.
Police were said to have several theories about what could have happened to Arian, with the most likely being that he had an accident without any outside involvement.
They added that the body was found in an area that the emergency services had previously combed during the large-scale search in April, though they did not clarify why it was not spotted at the time.
rmt/lo (AFP, dpa)
