Investigators in Portugal have ended their latest searches for Madeleine McCann after three days.

Police have been scouring scrubland and abandoned structures near the town of Praia da Luz, where the three-year-old British girl went missing 18 years ago.

Officers could be seen holding pitchforks as they combed land in an area on the outskirts of Lagos in the Algarve on Thursday.

Image: Criminal police investigators searching the area near a ruin. Pic: Reuters

Search teams involving German and Portuguese officers, as well as firefighters, used pickaxes and shovels to dig undergrowth, and a digger was again used to remove rubble from an abandoned structure at the site.

They spent two days focusing on one particular derelict building, using a ground-penetrating radar on the cobbled

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