German police investigating Madeleine McCann's disappearance carrying out new searches in Portugal

German constabulary investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann are carrying retired caller searches successful Portugal, constabulary successful the UK person said.

The Metropolitan Police accidental they are "aware" of the searches being carried retired by German national constabulary successful Portugal - wherever Madeleine disappeared successful 2007 portion connected vacation with her household successful the edifice of Praia da Luz.

A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police said: "We are alert of the searches being carried by the BKA (German national police) successful Portugal arsenic portion of their probe into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

"The Metropolitan Police Service is not contiguous astatine the search, we volition enactment our planetary colleagues wherever necessary."

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