SA Police and ADF personnel will resume their search for missing four-year-old Gus in South Australia’s mid-north tomorrow.<\/p>\n
In a statement, SA Police said they would resume search activity at the family’s station, about 43km south of Yunta.<\/p>\n
“The search, which will involve police and ADF personnel, will concentrate on an expanded area outside of the zone already searched extensively following Gus\u2019s disappearance on Saturday, 27 September,” police said.<\/p>\n
Despite “hoping for a miracle”, SA Police earlier this month scaled back the search , which they described as one of the “largest” and “most protracted” they had ever undertaken.<\/p>\n
Last week, SA Police conducted drone searches of the family’s property.<\/p>\n
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Volunteers and police officers searching at Gus’s family’s homestead south of Yunta. (ABC News: Daniel Taylor)<\/p>\n
In the statement released today, police said there had been “regular and close engagement” with Gus’s family who were “continuing to assist with the investigation”.<\/p>\n
Police previously said Gus was last seen playing at his family’s vast and isolated homestead about 5pm, before his family contacted authorities.<\/p>\n
While hundreds of police, community and SES volunteers scoured the ground for clues, only a single footprint with a “very similar boot pattern to what Gus was wearing when he went missing” was found during the initial search efforts.<\/p>\n
The search also included a tracker, as well as the police helicopter, drones and water operations teams, police cadets and the ADF.<\/p>\n
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A tracker also helped during the initial search for Gus. (ABC News: Daniel Taylor)<\/p>\n