KYOTO - A body believed to be that of a child was found Monday in the woods in Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, amid a massive search for an 11-year-old boy missing for three weeks, police said.

The search has been underway to find Yuki Adachi, a fifth grader at Sonobe Elementary School in Nantan, who went missing after his father dropped him off near the school on the morning of March 23.

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