As detectives conclude a three day search, optimism fades in Praia da Luz.

German and Portuguese police Wednesday continued their search near the Praia da Luz resort in Portugal for Madeleine McCann, the British child missing since 2007.

The new search for clues related to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has ended, after dozens of police were seen packing up investigative equipment at the Portuguese site.

German and Portuguese officers searched area for three days close to where the British toddler went missing in 2007

Eighteen years after Madeleine McCann went missing from an apartment block in Praia Da Luz, the Independent’s crime correspondent Amy-Clare Martin discovers a coastal resort…

As visitors pose for selfies in the Portuguese resort where the British child disappeared, a breakthrough seems further away than ever

As detectives conclude a three day search, optimism fades in Praia da Luz.

After a three-day search effort drew to a close without any sign of a breakthrough, crime correspondent Amy-Clare Martin reports from Praia da Luz on the latest attempt to give…