A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD boy who went missing in Aberdeen for more than 24 hours has been found.
Jacob Vergunst was with 15-year-old Jack Urquhart when they both went missing on Thursday.
Urquhart, who had last been seen in the Bridge of Don area of Aberdeen at around 3:30pm that day, was confirmed to have been found on Friday morning.
In a statement released at approximately 6:30pm on Friday, police said Vergunst had been traced "safe and well", after he was last seen in the Cults area of Aberdeen at around 8:30am on Thursday.
Officers said that when he was last seen the teenager was wearing a black puffer jacket, dark green trousers, black shoes and a black balaclava.
They also said that Vergunst was known to travel by bus across Scotland.
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