AN URGENT search is underway for a missing 17-year-old boy.

Fabian Ropo was last seen in Hove on Tuesday, August 2.

The teenager is slim, about 5ft 4in and has short dark hair.

He was wearing a black zip-up jacket over the top of a white t-shirt, blue jeans and black Nike trainers.

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“Officers are concerned for the welfare of missing Fabian Ropo, 17, from Hove,” a Brighton and Hove Police spokesman said.

“If you have any information of his whereabouts, please call 101, quoting serial number 1317 of 02/08.”