New search for madeleine mccann begins focusing on abandoned farmhouse

GERMAN TEAMS ARE LOOKING NEAR THE PRAIA DA LUZ RESORT WHERE THE BRITISH TODDLER VANISHED 19:08, 03 Jun 2025 A new search for Madeleine McCann is being carried out close to the last place the

British toddler was seen. Madeleine went missing while on holiday in Portugal with her twin baby siblings and parents, Kate and Gerry McCann. The pair had gone for dinner and found that

Madeleine - who was three years old at the time in May 2007 - had vanished from her room when they returned. A search spanning 18-years then began, with no trace of the youngster being found

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HOSPITAL Article continues below But now, German teams are searching an abandoned farmhouse in the hopes of finding evidence of her whereabouts or remains. A house near the holiday resort

where suspect Christian Brueckner used to live is also being looked at, The Mirror reports. A Portuguese source confirmed this week's operation would be a land search "to look for

any signs of Madeleine’s body". Police were reportedly informed last year about possible new evidence in the Praia area from around the time Madeleine went missing. Portuguese police

confirmed yesterday that detectives were acting on a request from a German public prosecutor to carry out "a broad range" of searches this week in the area of Lagos, in southern

Portugal. Article continues below Christian Brueckner is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence in Germany for raping a 72-year-old woman in Portugal in 2005.