Three days af­ter he dis­ap­peared while bathing with rel­a­tives at a beach in To­co, Coast Guard divers, fish­er­folk, po­lice, mem­bers of the search and res­cue team and even vil­lagers widened their search for nine-year-old Omari Prov­i­dence yes­ter­day.

Omari, who lived at Pic­ton Road in Laven­tille, vis­it­ed Mis­sion Beach, To­co, with his fam­i­ly on Sun­day af­ter­noon and was swept away by waves.

Up to yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, the mas­sive search ef­fort to find the child con­tin­ued at sev­er­al points along Trinidad’s east coast.

Con­tact­ed for com­ment by tele­phone yes­ter­day, one of Omari’s rel­a­tives said they had no fur­ther up­dates from his par­ents who re­mained in To­co to as­sist with search ef­forts.

Asked how the fam­i­ly felt, the rel­a­tive said they were all do­ing their best to cope with the loss.

On Mon­day, Omari’s grand­moth­er Kath­leen Prov­i­dence said she was still cling­ing to hope that he could still be alive and was pray­ing for his safe re­turn.

Since Omari’s dis­ap­pear­ance, sev­er­al groups in­clud­ing mem­bers of the Hunters Search and Res­cue Unit and res­i­dents of near­by vil­lages have been search­ing for him.

Ac­cord­ing to the search and res­cue team, led by Val­lance Ramb­harat, the search has been ex­pand­ed.

In a post on its Face­book page, the group said the search for Omari has now stretched to Point Galera in the east to Lil­lette Beach in the west.

It added that the new search plan was de­vel­oped in con­sul­ta­tion with the fish­er­folk com­mu­ni­ty of To­co.