Police scour Portuguese scrubland on first day of new search for Madeleine McCann

Almost 20 years since Madeleine McCann went missing, specialist police teams from Germany are leading a new search of more than 20 plots of land in Portugal. Officers are using ground-penetrating radar equipment to scour an area east of Praia da Luz, the town where the three-year-old went missing in 2007, searching for her body or an indication she may have once been there. The search area also includes a farmhouse where German suspect Christian B lived at the time of Madeleine's disappearance. Read more: https://trib.al/iDvwa2c #MadeleineMcCann #PraiaDaLuz #Portugal SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/skynews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/skynews Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/skynews Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skynews Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@skynews For more content go to http://news.sky.com and download our apps: Apple https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/sky-news/id316391924?mt=8 Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bskyb.skynews.android&hl=en_GB Sky News Daily podcast is available for free here: https://podfollow.com/skynewsdaily/ Sky News videos are now available in Spanish here/Los video de Sky News están disponibles en español aquí: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzG5BnqHO8oNlrPDW9CYJog To enquire about licensing Sky News content, you can find more information here: https://news.sky.com/info/library-sales