Ghaziabad, Nov 1 (IANS) A five-year-old boy who went missing here while celebrating Diwali remains untraced but a police officer said Tuesday they were hopeful of tracing him.

Prince alias Deepak alias Deepu of Radha Colony and his friends were lighting firecrackers when he went missing.

Police say they have displayed photographs of the boy at all public places. ‘We are hopeful of recovering the child,’ police officer Avneesh Gautam said.