Police search for missing 3-year-old north of Kingston, Ont.

Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are looking for a three-year-old boy last seen Sunday morning about 50 kilometres north of downtown Kingston, Ont.

OPP said in a tweet that Jude Leytonwas last seen at about 11 a.m., on March 28 in the Canoe Lake Road area of South Frontenac.

Approximately 50 OPP Emergency Response Team officersspent Sunday afternoon and overnight searching for the boy. Another 50 members from two volunteer search and rescue teams out of Ottawa and Smiths Falls, Ont., joinedthe search Monday. Marine teams were out on a body of water near Folsom Lake Sunday, but ice on the lake has become a challenge, OPP Const. Curtis Dick told CBC.

"Our focus remains on the ground search," said OPP spokesperson Bill Dickson. "We maintain hopeful that we will find this young man alive."

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Provincial police, alongside volunteer search and rescue teams, continued looking for three-year-old Jude Leyton on Tuesday. The boy was last seen Sunday at a property in the Canoe Lake Road area.

He saidfoul play isn't suspected at this time.

Leytonis described as three feet five inches tall, weighs about 45 pounds, and has long brown hair that was in a ponytail whenlast seen. The child was wearing a black-and-grey coat and blue rubber boots, police said.

Anyone who sees Leyton is asked to call 911 or 1-888-310-1122.

Police are asking people from the area to not take it upon themselves to search, saying it could block roads and interfere with their search dogs and aircraft.

"We had two of our canine units get drafted off the course they wanted to be on," Dickson said. "They ended up following a trail that turned out to be two people walking through the woods searching."