Madeleine McCann search LIVE: Cops hone in on abandoned buildings & drop wider search as radar scanner and JCB deployed
Radar equipment seen in use
Radar equipment was seen in use for the first time this afternoon.
Derelict barns were cleared in preparation for scanning.
In one, visited by The Sun, piles of rubble had been thrown out of the building, leaving a clear floor ready for the ground radar.
It will scan 15ft down in Praia da Luz, Portugal, where Madeleine vanished from a holiday flat in 2007 aged three.
At least five different abandoned buildings were being searched today.
The search today extended to two more derelict barns, in the same area of scrubland.
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