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Missing Indianapolis siblings found safe

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A news text alert helped an alert young couple find two missing children Friday night.

The 11- and 8-year-old brother and sister disappeared from their apartment complex around 1:30 p.m. Friday. Parents searched themselves, then called police. Police and firefighters launched a major door-to-door search in the neighborhood.

While they were searching, Mia Bryant and her boyfriend Chris Cox got a news text alert about two missing children. Moments later, they spotted two children matching the description of the missing kids in the alert. Bryant talked to the children, got their names and brought them back to their apartment complex. Police and firefighters reunited the children with their parents.

The children were not harmed.

The children walked away from home once before. Police say they spent some of the time while they were missing in a Walmart and other stores on the north side.

The incident was another test of the Urban Search Task Force that police and fire departments have trained to quickly deploy to find missing persons.

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