UPDATE 4/3/24: The Boston Police Department says these missing boys have been located. See more here.
An earlier version of this story follows with the children's identities removed.
The search for 12-year-old twin boys missing from their home in Boston's Hyde Park neighborhood has stretched into a third day, and a police report is shedding new light on what happened.
The boys haven't been seen since about 5 p.m. Tuesday, when they left their house while a Department of Children and Families worker was there to take them into state custody, according to a police report.
The children had gone into their room to get some of their things, but left after the father went in and spoke to them, according to the social worker's account in the police report. It wasn't immediately clear what the family members discussed.
NBC10 Boston has reached out to the Department of Children and Families. The father has not been available for comment on the situation.
Officers on Wednesday checked with a former guardian, a friend of the boys' mother, who said she didn't know where the children were, according to the police report. On Thursday, police received a tip from someone who thought she saw the boys get on a bus at the Mattapan MBTA trolley station. She said she reached out to police when she saw a missing persons poster on social media.
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A Boston police representative has said that the boys are believed to have run away and their disappearance is not believed to be suspicious, but that the department was asking for the public's help in finding the boys.
They'd been living with their father in Hyde Park, but also staying with other relatives, and police have said they may be in the area of Homestead Street in Dorchester.
Anyone with information about the twins' whereabouts is asked to call 911 or Boston police detectives at 617-343-5607. Anonymous tips can be called in to the CrimeStoppers Tip Line at 1-800-494-TIPS or by texting the word "TIP" to 27463.
NBC10 Boston's Marc Fortier contributed to this report.
