Investigators are continuing to scour scrubland and abandoned buildings as they continue their search for Madeleine McCann.
Madeleine disappeared in 2007 while on holiday with her family in the resort of Praia da Luz after her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, who is from Glasgow, went out to dinner and left her sleeping in a room with her toddler twin siblings.
She was three years old at the time.
Kate and Gerry McCann are not commenting during the “active police investigation”, staff at the Find Madeleine Campaign said.
Today, officers were seen clearing vegetation around abandoned buildings, wearing protective gear such as hard hats and face masks, and a digger was used to move rubble.
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Officers could be seen using hedge trimmers around more run-down buildings in the same scrubland area on the outskirts of Lagos. Personnel wore protective gear such as hard hats and face masks as they cleared vegetation around the structures.
The search is being carried out at the request of the German federal police, as they look for evidence that could implicate prime suspect Christian Brueckner, who is in prison for raping a 72-year-old woman in Praia da Luz in 2005.
He is due to be released from jail in September if no further charges are brought.
In October last year, Brueckner was cleared by a German court of unrelated sexual offences, alleged to have taken place in Portugal between 2000 and 2017.
German investigators and Portuguese officers last carried out searches in 2023, near the Barragem do Arade reservoir, about 30 miles from Praia da Luz.
Brueckner, who spent time in the area between 2000 and 2017, had photographs and videos of himself near the reservoir.
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