Madeleine McCann: Latest search sees teams drain well and clear dense vegetation

Madeleine McCann vanished while on holiday with her family in the Algarve resort after her parents went out to dinner and left her sleeping in a room with her toddler twin siblings
Madeleine McCann: Latest search sees teams drain well and clear dense vegetation

A Portuguese police officer patrols the entrance to a road to the west of Praia De Luz, Portugal, where searches are being carried out by officers investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann (James Manning/PA)

Search teams have been seen draining a well and clearing areas of dense vegetation near abandoned buildings as the latest search for Madeleine McCann continues in Portugal.

German investigators along with Portuguese police officers and firefighters are working in a little-developed area of countryside a few miles from Praia da Luz where Madeleine was last seen in 2007.

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