00:00As the search intensifies for the missing two-year-old toddler, rescue operations have expanded from bushy terrain surrounding the
00:08child's home to swamplands, nearby coastal areas and now the landfill.
00:13Commander of Hunter's search and rescue teams, Shamsuddin Ayobe tells the Morning Edition that searches at the landfill are now
00:22being prioritized as teams work closely with the police service and disaster management officials in hopes of recovering the child.
00:30We have, as I said, direct to all the information leading to that area. We actually have the individual who
00:42when the, what time the individual reaches the site, what vehicle, a vehicle, a description of the vehicle, we don't
00:49want to put more on that.
00:50He says, search parties begin operations from as early as 7 a.m. and continue throughout the day into the
00:58night.
00:59Ayobe notes that despite the enormous challenge posed by thousands of discarded bags and layers of debris, teams remain committed
01:08to combing through the area thoroughly, insisting that no stone would be left unturned.
01:14Mostly, you have to check one by one. There are a lot of bags, you know, in the area. So
01:21we have to search of those bags and to verify what we have been looking for because we have a
01:27description also of the bag, one of the bags that we have been looking for.
01:33So that's how it is. So that's how it is. It's, as I said, you know, it's narrowed down to
01:38a particular thing that we have been looking for.
01:41It's actually manpowering in our search, one of the things.
01:45He says he is hoping today can bring closure to the family.
01:49What the information is that he was taken and through in that area.
01:55So we are believing, we are believing, that's why homicide is, we are looking for, to retrieve a body.
02:05And God forbid, let's hope and pray for the best, but that is what we are in that area looking
02:11for.
02:12Nicole M. Romani, TV6 News.
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