Search continues for missing four-year-old boy in remote SA

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Police horses and water operations have joined the search for a boy who went missing from a family homestead in South Australia's mid-north on Saturday evening. A ground search on Sunday and a drone covering a 2.5km radius search area was unable to locate the boy. Police say they are still "hopeful" they will locate the four-year-old but "time is of the essence".

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00:004-year-old Gus was last seen at about 5pm on Saturday night at his family homestead,

00:08which is south of Yanta, about 200km east of Port Augusta. That night, police were in

00:14helicopters doing aerial searches with infrared cameras that were unable to find the boy.

00:20The search recommenced at first light the next morning. They were using drones to try and capture

00:26a bigger area, about 2.5km of where he was last seen. And SES volunteers helped with the

00:33on-ground search as well. Helicopters continued those aerial searches all throughout last night.

00:39SA police say that the 4-year-old is Caucasian with long blonde curly hair. He was wearing a blue

00:47t-shirt with a yellow minion character on the front, a grey sun hat, grey pants and boots.

00:54Now, the search plan for today is water operations will be searching dams and tanks,

01:00while mounted crews will be helping with that on-ground effort. Now, police say that they

01:06are still hopeful. That's what they've told us today. But time is absolutely of the essence here.

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