A missing 11-year-old boy in India has been found after he was spotted by a member of the public who received a WhatsApp alert sent out by police.
Police in the northern town of Bareilly say they used the instant messaging service to send out the boy’s photo to several mobile phones in the area.
A man travelling on a train, who had received the alert, recognised the boy sitting near him and called the police.
India has more than 900 million mobile users and WhatsApp is hugely popular.
The app, used by more than 400 million people globally every month, was bought by social networking site Facebook recently for $19bn (£12bn).
via BBC News – India police use WhatsApp to trace missing boy.
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