A child’s footprint has been found as the massive search for missing four-year-old August, or ‘Gus’, who has been missing in South Australia’s remote Mid North for days.

Gus was last seen playing in sand at his family’s sheep station, about 40km south of Yunta, at about 5pm on Saturday.

His disappearance has sparked an enormous search effort involving dozens of police, volunteers, and rescue teams scouring the surrounding countryside and nearby waterways.

Yorke Mid North Superintendent Mark Syrus told ABC Radio Adelaide on Wednesday morning that the “prominent” footprint was found on Tuesday afternoon, about 500m from the property’s homestead.

“We’ve positively identified that it’s a child’s footprint,” Superintendent Syrus said.

“It’s a very similar boot pattern to what Gus was weari

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