A large-scale rescue operation has been mounted off Shetland after a child's voice was heard calling for help on the shipping radio distress channel.
But Shetland coastguard have said the call could have been a hoax.
The coastguard helicopter along with rescue craft and other boats searched the area near Yell Sound for two hours but found nothing.
Coastguards say if the call was a fake, it has cost tens of thousands of pounds in wasted time.
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