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Madeleine McCann search wraps up with slim chance of breakthrough seen

Journalists work as the police search the Arade reservoir near the area where British girl Madeleine McCann went missing in the Portuguese Algarve in May 2007, in Silves, Portugal, May 24, 2023. REUTERS/Luis Ferreira/File Photo

Police on Thursday wrapped up the latest search effort in the 16-year-old hunt for missing British girl Madeleine McCann after collecting unspecified samples by a reservoir in Portugal, as a German prosecutor played down hopes of an imminent breakthrough.

Portuguese police said in a statement the three-day operation requested by Germany was now over and that the collected material would be handed over to German authorities after "safeguarding the interests of the investigation still ongoing in Portugal".

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