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A toddler who went missing in the western German town of Gelsenkirchen on Saturday evening – triggering a large-scale police operation – was found sleeping in a pile of laundry. Dozens of people and rescue workers had searched for the 3-year-old boy. According to the police, the place where the child was finally discovered after two hours could not have been closer to home: “The boy was sleeping on a pile of laundry in a cupboard in the house,” said a spokesman in response to a dpa enquiry. The father had contacted the police and stated that his son had apparently disappeared from the garden i…

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