Police are searching dams and tanks for a four-year-old boy who went missing on his remote homestead over the weekend.<\/p>\n
August, or Gus, was last seen on a property in mid-north South Australia, about 40km south of Yunta, at 5pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\ufeffLocal officers searched the area with a helicopter and an infra-red camera that same night, but were unable to find him.<\/p>\n
Crews have used\ufeff trail bikes, ATVs, horses and a drone and a helicopter to scour a 2.5km radius from where Gus was last seen.<\/p>\n
Today, police attached to water operations will search dams and tanks on the property while officers on horses search the property.<\/p>\n
SA Police Senior Constable Matt Hale told ABC Radio Adelaide that they were still “hopeful for a good outcome” but stressed that “time is of the essence”.<\/p>\n
“This is his backyard, so it’d be quite easy for kids to be comfortable in that environment, but also easy for them to get lost,” he said.<\/p>\n
Gus is described as Caucasian with long, blonde, curly hair.<\/p>\n
He was wearing a grey sun hat, a cobalt blue t-shirt with a yellow minion from the movie Despicable Me on the front, light grey long pants and boots.<\/p>\n
His family have declined to release an image of him.<\/p>\n
Anyone who sees a boy matching his description or has information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching dams and tanks for a four-year-old boy who went missing on his remote homestead over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-176488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}