Police in Germany have confirmed that DNA tests conducted on the body of a boy found in the River Danube do not match that of missing toddler Ben Needham. Ben vanished from the Greek island of Kos in 1991 when he was just 21 months old.

The case of Ben Needham has attracted widespread attention and tugged at the heartstrings of people across the world for many years. South Yorkshire Police, in collaboration with Interpol, sent DNA samples to German investigators after an appeal was made to help identify the remains of a young boy discovered in the River Danube in May of the previous year.

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