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Agence France-Presse

A two-year-old girl who disappeared in eastern Serbia last week was killed, and two suspects have been arrested, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday, following a frantic search for the missing toddler.
Danka Ilic went missing on March 26 in the eastern city of Bor, prompting Serbian authorities to use for the first time its version of an Amber alert system for child abduction emergencies, to send text messages nationwide about the incident.
“The police have arrested two individuals who have killed the little girl. As far as I understand, both of them have confessed to the crime,” Vucic told government officials.
“What kind of monsters are we dealing with?” he added.

Serbia’s interior ministry later confirmed that the two suspects had confessed and said the search for the girl’s body was still under way.
“The police continue their intensive work on this case and will promptly inform the public about any developments,” the ministry said in a statement.
Hopes were briefly stirred over the weekend after a video surfaced of a young child at a bus station in Vienna that sparked speculation Ilic might be in Austria, where a large Serbian diaspora community lives.
On Sunday, Interpol also flagged the case, issuing a Yellow Notice that alerts officials about a missing person.
The child’s mother, Ivana Ilic, had told Serbian media this week that the family continued to “hold on” amid the search.
“We are waiting for all this to end, hoping for the best, and then my husband and I will speak publicly and respond to all the insults, accusations and nonsense,” she told the local Serbian news outlet Nova.
Abductions of children remain relatively rare in Serbia, despite social media users pumping out conspiracy theories about the selling and trafficking of adolescents in the Balkan nation.


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Both suspects have ‘confessed to the crime’ of killing two-year-old Danka Ilic who went missing on March 26, Search for the Ilic’s body was still under way
Child abductions remain relatively rare in Serbia, despite conspiracy theories on social media about the selling and trafficking of adolescents


Both suspects have ‘confessed to the crime’ of killing two-year-old Danka Ilic who went missing on March 26, Search for the Ilic’s body was still under way.


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