As the search for 12-year-old Bryan Vasquez enters its sixth day, the United Cajun Navy said its divers plan to search a nearby waterway for the nonverbal autistic boy who wandered away from his New Orleans East home.

Todd Terrell, president of the volunteer search organization, said Tuesday that his group used thermal drones overnight to search portions of the neighborhood where Bryan was last seen.

Home surveillance video recorded Bryan walking by himself while wearing only an adult diaper after he left his Beaucaire Street home some time just before 5:20 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 14.

Bryan cannot speak and does not understand English or Spanish. He was known to escape, according to his family, who had recently moved to a different house in the neighborhood. His mother, who was caring for a

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