Madeleine McCann: Portuguese police begin searching reservoir
by Daniel Boffey in Silves from World news | The Guardian on (#6BVQ6)
Operation at site about 30 miles from where three-year-old went missing in 2007 is expected to last two days
A search by German and Portuguese police for Madeleine McCann has started 16 years after the three-year-old went missing in the Algarve, with German and Portuguese police focusing on a peninsula jutting into a reservoir, 30 miles from where she disappeared.
Officers with pickaxes, chainsaws and rakes started to search the barren spot and surrounding woods by the Barragem do Arade reservoir on Tuesday morning, fanning out across a piece of land roughly 500 sq metres in size.
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