Missing toddler Ben Needham 'likely killed in accident'

A UK police team probing the more than two-decade old disappearance of a British toddler on the Greek island of Kos said Monday the boy was likely killed in an accident.

However, investigators have not found the body of Ben Needham - who was 21 months old when he vanished near a farmhouse where his family was staying in July 1991 - and they said the investigation is continuing.

"They know hes dead but just can't find him," Needham's mother Kerry told the Daily Mirror at the site, adding that she felt "physically sick" at the news.

"I'd tear up the whole island to find him. I can't say goodbye until I know where he is," she said, clinging to her parents Christine and Eddie for support.

Detective Inspector Jon Cousins of the South Yorkshire Police had earlier told reporters on Kos: "It is my professional belief that Ben Needham died as a result of an...