The frantic search for a four-year-old who went missing from a regional property in South Australia has entered its sixth day, with polcie shifting their focus into a “recovery phase”.

August, also known as “Gus”, was last seen playing in sand at his family’s sheep station, about 40km south of Yunta, about 5pm on Saturday.

‘Recovery phase’

Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Yorke Mid North Superintendent Mark Syrus said police had grave fears for the boy, who has been missing for almost a week without access to food or water, and had changed their rescue into a “recovery phase”.

“A four-year-old doesn’t disappear into thin air, he has to be somewhere,” he said.

“Hopefully, he’s hanging in there alive, but we are now in recovery phase, and the fact he’s been gone over 100 hours and six

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