LAGOS, Portugal—Portuguese and German police on Tuesday launched joint searches of a “vast” area in Portugal’s southern Algarve region for new evidence related to the 2007 disappearance of three-year-old British child Madeleine McCann.
The scale of the searches could be the most extensive since the initial investigation was closed in 2008, a year after Madeleine went missing while on holiday with her family in the Algarve town of Praia da Luz.
