Madeleine McCann: Search continues in Portugal's Praia da Luz

The search so far has focused on derelict, abandoned buildings and wells.

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Portuguese and German authorities are expected to continue to focus the search on disused buildings and wells.

Madeleine was three when she vanished while on holiday with her parents on 3 May 2007, sparking a Europe-wide police investigation that has become one of the highest-profile missing persons cases.

This search - which covers the municipality of Lagos, near Praia da Luz - will continue until Friday across a 21 sq km (8 sq miles) site between where Madeleine went missing and where the German investigators' prime suspect had been staying at the time.

Madeleine's case was initially handled by the Portuguese authorities with the aid of the Metropolitan Police, but German investigators took the lead in 2020, when they identified German national Christian Brückner as their prime suspect.