Prosecutor plays down hopes of breakthrough in Madeleine McCann search


  • World
  • Thursday, 25 May 2023

Journalists work as the police search the Arade reservoir near the area where British girl Madeleine McCann went missing in the Portuguese Algarve in May 2007, in Silves, Portugal, May 24, 2023. REUTERS/Luis Ferreira/File Photo

HAMBURG, Germany (Reuters) - A German prosecutor played down hopes of an imminent breakthrough in the 16-year-old hunt for missing British girl Madeleine McCann on Thursday, as investigators spent a third day searching a reservoir in Portugal.

German authorities, who have named a suspect in the case, are helping Portuguese crews comb the remote area inland from the Algarve coastal resort where McCann - then aged three - went missing from her bedroom during a family holiday in 2007.

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