Twelve-year-old Prince Burke has been found safe.

The boy was kid­napped by a close male rel­a­tive this morn­ing.

No oth­er de­tails have been re­vealed re­gard­ing the cir­cum­stances re­gard­ing his re­lease.

Ear­li­er to­day a mas­sive res­cue op­er­a­tion was launched in the hills of Dibe, Long Cir­cu­lar and in­clud­ed po­lice of­fi­cers and sol­diers.

Po­lice said the 33-year-old sus­pect al­leged­ly took the boy with him as he fled af­ter stab­bing his wife, the child's moth­er.

She has since been treat­ed and dis­charged from hos­pi­tal.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands the in­ci­dent oc­curred around 5:30 am to­day, dur­ing which the sus­pect and the woman are be­lieved to have been in­volved in an ar­gu­ment that es­ca­lat­ed in­to phys­i­cal vi­o­lence.