Police will scale back their search for missing four-year-old Gus Lamont almost one week after he vanished from a property in South Australia’s outback.

SA Police Assistant Commissioner Ian Parrott announced the sad update on Friday afternoon, saying the searchers had been “hoping for a miracle, but that miracle has not eventuated”.

“We’re confident that we’ve done absolutely everything we can to locate Gus within the search area, but despite our best efforts, we have not been able to locate him, and unfortunately, we are now having to scale back this search for Gus,” he said.

Police allocated massive resources over the past few days to find the boy, who is believed to have wandered off from his family’s Oak Park station near Yunta, about 320km north of Adelaide, last Saturday about 5pm

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