Police have started the fresh dig for Madeleine McCann – with tents erected at the "crime scene" in Portugal.

RadarOnline.com can reveal the search for the missing British tot is currently focussed on a patch of scrubland very close to where she vanished almost two decades ago, when she was just three, and a property connected to the prime suspect in the case, Christian Brueckner . Article continues below advertisement

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Around 30 German police officers, including forensic experts, are investigating her disappearance and will be aided by radars which can scan 15ft underground.

They face a race against time to charge Brueckner , who is currently nearing the end of his prison sentence for raping a U.S. woman i

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