Police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann who have been searching a reservoir have shifted to digging in nearby woodland, according to reports from the scene. The big operation which had been due to conclude yesterday has now been extended with officers now seen police digging a concentrated area of woodland near the banks of a remote reservoir.
Personnel spent a number of hours cutting back the undergrowth of a peninsula next to the water, before using shovels to excavate part of the area. A large section of the Barragem do Arade has been cordoned off since Tuesday morning, around 30 miles from where the three-year-old went missing in 2007.
Sniffer dogs and rakes have been used by uniformed and plain-clothed officers over the course of two days, before specialist forest workers used strimmers and heavy machinery to cut back the landscape. Fresh searches in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have seen police dig a concentrated area of woodland near the banks of a remote reservoir in Portugal.
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