06-03-2014, 09:09 AM
FORENSIC LAND SEARCH BEGINS NEAR PRAIA DA LUZ RESORT
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Police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann cordoned off scrubland Monday near the resort where the British girl vanished seven years ago.
Officers placed yellow-and-white police tape around the waste ground, which is larger than a soccer field and covered in bushes and some trees. They were expected to conduct a forensic examination of the area in coming days. Officials have previously said detectives may use excavators, dogs and ground-penetrating radar as they scrutinize the terrain. Police kept watch over the area from an adjacent low hill.
Officials made no immediate comment on Monday's developments. Cases that are under investigation in Portugal are covered by a judicial secrecy law, which forbids the release of information.
The scrubland is about 330 yards from the Praia da Luz resort in southern Portugal where Madeleine vanished from her family's vacation apartment in May 2007, shortly before her fourth birthday. The area was searched in the days following her disappearance.
Full story: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/police-prepa...cann-case/
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Police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann cordoned off scrubland Monday near the resort where the British girl vanished seven years ago.
Officers placed yellow-and-white police tape around the waste ground, which is larger than a soccer field and covered in bushes and some trees. They were expected to conduct a forensic examination of the area in coming days. Officials have previously said detectives may use excavators, dogs and ground-penetrating radar as they scrutinize the terrain. Police kept watch over the area from an adjacent low hill.
Officials made no immediate comment on Monday's developments. Cases that are under investigation in Portugal are covered by a judicial secrecy law, which forbids the release of information.
The scrubland is about 330 yards from the Praia da Luz resort in southern Portugal where Madeleine vanished from her family's vacation apartment in May 2007, shortly before her fourth birthday. The area was searched in the days following her disappearance.
Full story: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/police-prepa...cann-case/