SA Police will return to Oak Park Station in the state’s mid-north on Friday to resume a search for missing four-year-old Gus Lamont.

Police will drain a large dam about 600m from the homestead, which sits about 40km south of Yunta.

The 4.5m-deep dam was already searched by divers in the first days of the frantic search after Gus was reported missing on September 27.

But today, SA Police said authorities would return and drain the dam to rule out the possibility Gus had drowned.

August, affectionately known as Gus , was last seen playing outside the family’s homestead on Saturday, September 27 at approximately 5 pm.

Two previous search operations – which involved hundreds of people, including police officers, army personnel, trackers and local property owners – failed to turn up

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