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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Shweta Sharma

Search scaled back for four-year-old missing in Australian outback

Police in Australia scaled back the search for a four-year-old boy who went missing six days ago, conceding that he was likely dead.

August Lamont, also called Gus, went missing Saturday afternoon from his family’s sheep station in the remote mid-north of South Australia. He was last seen playing outside a dirt mound in an area 40km south of Yutna, nearly 300km north of Adelaide.

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