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| Madeleine McCann: No evidence after searches, say police | Madeleine McCann: No evidence after searches, say police |
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| No evidence relating to missing Madeleine McCann has been identified after searches in Portugal, Scotland Yard has said. | No evidence relating to missing Madeleine McCann has been identified after searches in Portugal, Scotland Yard has said. |
| Portuguese and British police have completed searching three sites in the Algarve holiday resort of Praia da Luz. | Portuguese and British police have completed searching three sites in the Algarve holiday resort of Praia da Luz. |
| Scotland Yard said the searches were the "first phase of this major investigation" and approximately 60,000 square metres had been covered. | Scotland Yard said the searches were the "first phase of this major investigation" and approximately 60,000 square metres had been covered. |
| Madeleine was three when she went missing in Praia da Luz in May 2007. | Madeleine was three when she went missing in Praia da Luz in May 2007. |
| A statement from Scotland Yard said "more activity has been agreed" with the Portuguese police and that this was expected to start shortly. | |
| The areas that have been searched included drainage channels and derelict buildings, police said. | |
| 'Ground anomalies' | |
| The decision to search the "horse-shoe" shaped areas of wasteland was as a result of investigation work by UK police. | |
| Police sources have previously revealed that after the physical searches have been completed, Portuguese police are due to question "several suspects", who are described as of interest in the case. | |
| On Wednesday police could be seen searching two other sites near Praia da Luz with sniffer dogs. | |
| But the main focus of the land searches was on the first 15-acre site that police spent a week combing for evidence. | |
| Scotland Yard said overall "41 ground anomalies" had been identified by both aerial surveys and ground analysis, which were then fully investigated. | |
| The searches are the most significant police activity in Praia da Luz since Madeleine went missing seven years ago. | |
| Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, had been eating dinner with friends a short distance away when the three-year-old disappeared from their Ocean Club holiday apartment. | |
| The McCanns, from Rothley, Leicestershire, have said they have been "encouraged" by the progress made by police. | |
| The search in Praia da Luz comes after the Met launched a fresh investigation into Madeleine's disappearance last July, codenamed Operation Grange. |