<p>MADRID — Interpol posted on its website Thursday the photographs of two Spanish children who allegedly were taken by their father from the Canary Islands off West Africa.</p>
<p>The international criminal police issued so-called “yellow notices” for the girls, ages 1 and 6. That step is taken to help locate missing persons, often minors, or help identify people who are unable to identify themselves, according to Interpol.</p>
<p>The girls, Anna and Olivia, and their father, Tomás Gimeno, went missing on April 27 in Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands.</p>
<p>Their mother, who is divorced from their father, alleges he told her she would never see him or her daughters again.</p>
<p>An official search began the following day on land and sea after Gimeno’s boat was found drifting in a Tenerife harbor with nobody on board.</p>
<p>The girls’ mother, Beatriz Zimmermann, earlier this week posted a video of her daughters in an effort to help find them.</p>
<p>A judge has ordered an information blackout on the investigation.</p>
