The operation to find missing British boy Oliver Pugh is still ongoing, despite Spain’s Ministry of the Interior deactivating the alert for the tot.

Late last week, the government posted a photo of little Oliver on Spain’s National Missing Persons Centre (CNDES) website and said he had last been spotted in Marbella, Costa del Sol, on July 4.

Authorities later said they believed the boy’s mum, who is Russian, had abducted him and taken him to her homeland in breach of a court order banning him from leaving Spain.

Today, the public appeal was taken off the CNDES website, confusing many.

Users trying to access the alert and photo of Oliver were met with a message in Spanish, which said: ‘This alert has been deactivated or the URL is incorrect.’

A spokesman for Spain’s National Police in

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