Desperate Search Enters Fourth Day As Four Year Old Missing In Australia

Desperate Search for Missing Four-Year-Old August ‘Gus’ Lamont Enters Fourth Day: Family Left ‘Devastated’ and ‘Struggling to Comprehend’ His Vanishing

• August ‘Gus’ Lamont, 4, went missing on Saturday from a remote sheep station in South Australia’s Mid North
• Despite a massive search effort, sniffer dogs have failed to pick up a trail, and the terrain has proven ‘deceptively large and challenging’
• Gus’s family has issued a heartfelt plea, saying they are ‘devastated’ and ‘struggling to comprehend’ his disappearance
• Police are throwing everything at the search, with over 100 personnel, drones, helicopters, dogs, horses, and aircraft scouring the vast outback property

A frantic search for missing four-year-old August ‘Gus’ Lamont has stretched into its fourth day, with no sign of the young boy who vanished from a remote sheep station in South Australia’s Mid North. The alarm was raised just after 5 pm on Saturday, sparking a massive search across the isolated 60sqkm property, near Yunta, surrounded by outback-like conditions and dense scrub.

Gus’s family has been left ‘devastated’ by his disappearance, with spokesperson Bill Harbison saying, ‘This has come as a shock to our family and friends, and we are struggling to comprehend what has happened.’

‘Gus’s absence is felt in all of us, and we miss him more than words can express,’ Harbison added. ‘Our hearts are aching, and we are holding onto hope that he will be found and returned to us safely.’

Police Commissioner Grant Stevens said, ‘We’re still hopeful that we’re going to have success… Our intention at the moment is to continue searching until we find Gus.’

Sniffer dogs have failed to pick up a trail, and the terrain has proven ‘deceptively large and challenging,’ Stevens said. Gus was last seen playing at the family homestead, about 40km south of Yunta, wearing a grey sun hat, a cobalt blue T-shirt with a yellow Minion character on the front, light grey long pants, and boots.

Despite the massive effort, search teams remain hampered by one critical unknown – they don’t know which direction Gus wandered off in. ‘We don’t have a direction of travel, having to cover a 360-degree angle,’ Superintendent Mark Syrus said.

But hope remains to find Gus safe and possibly ‘curled up under a bush’. ‘We will continue searching into the day and night for Gus,’ Syrus said. ‘The search is continuing, we have a number of boots on the ground.’