German cops searching for clues relating to Madeleine McCann's disappearance turned up bone fragments and samples of clothing during a dig near the resort where she vanished, according to media reports.
Investigators launched fresh searches last week through Atalaia - a stretch of scrubland littered with rubbish and graffiti-covered buildings linked by a network of dusty tracks known in Portuguese as the Fisherman's Trail.
Connecting Praia da Luz with the nearby town of Lagos, the track is a popular hiking route for tourists, but for four days last week it was cordoned off for members of the BKA - Germany's equivalent of the FBI - to conduct their searches.
Sources close to the investigation said that 'only animal bones and bits of old adult clothing' have been found in the estimated £300,000 operation.
One officer told MailOnline: 'We always knew it was going to be a waste of time but we have to show cooperation.
