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Aadil Umair Rahim disappeared at Newport Pagnell services on Friday evening
A six-year-old who sparked a nine-hour search when he vanished from a service station was asleep when he was found beside the motorway, his father said.
Aadil Umair Rahim was on a school trip when he went missing from Newport Pagnell services on the M1 on Friday.
More than 1,000 people joined police and fire crews to search through the night for the Nottingham schoolboy.
Umair Rahim said his son was “perfectly fine”, adding: “Police told me he was sleeping when they found him.”
Aadil was found near roadworks just off the northbound carriageway at about 04:15.
“I have no idea if he was outside for the whole nine hours,” his father said.
Mr Rahim said his son and his classmates had been visiting museums in London “and the group had stopped at the services for a comfort break”.
He said he was grateful to the emergency services, and “those members of [the] public who sacrificed their evening to assist with the search for our son”.
Aadil was found about half a mile from the service station where he went missing
Search teams initially thought Aadil could be hiding in the service station but grew concerned as the hours went by and the weather got colder.
Temperatures fell to 1°C before he was found close to a footbridge near Newbolt Close, about half a mile from the service station.
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The six-year-old went missing from Newport Pagnell services, near Milton Keynes
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