Day 6: Search for missing kids in rural Nova Scotia continues
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Lily and Jack Sullivan, aged six and four, were reported missing on May 2. Upwards of 160 people have been scouring a wooded area using search dogs, drones and helicopters.
The massive search for two missing children continues for a sixth straight day in a rural area of Nova Scotia’s Pictou County.
Lily and Jack Sullivan, aged six and four, were reported missing on May 2 at around 10 a.m. from their home on Gairloch Road in Lansdowne Station, which is about 30 kilometres from New Glasgow, N.S.
Since then, around 140 to 160 people have shown up each day — scouring the wooded area with search dogs on land and in the air with helicopters and drones.
Volunteers have come from across the province and on Tuesday, ground search and rescue teams from New Brunswick joined the efforts.
RCMP have maintained since the children’s disappearance last Friday that the children are considered missing, there were no signs of abduction, and believed they wandered away.
“Police are pursuing all investigative avenues, and there are a variety of teams involved who are applying the tools and the skills and the expertise that are needed to bring Lily and Jack home,” said Nova Scotia RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Carlie McCann on Tuesday.
In an interview this week, the children’s stepfather, Daniel Martell said he wants the search area to be expanded to include provincial borders and airports in case the children were abducted.
Martell told Global News that his side of the family are the only ones at at the search site, after Lily and Jack’s mother left the county on Saturday.
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