Three-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann is feared abducted after vanishing from a holiday apartment in Portugal on 3 May.

Volunteers have scoured the countryside around the resort village of Praia da Luz in a desperate bid to find Madeleine.

Reward posters have gone up in the Algarve as Portuguese authorities head the hunt for the British girl.

A local woman expresses her concern by laying a flower at the apartment where Madeleine disappeared.

Police have used search dogs as part of their operation. Here they work outside the McCann family's apartment.

Gerry and Kate McCann hold close their two other children, two-year-old twins Sean and Amelie, in Praia da Luz.

Portuguese police chief Olegario Sousa (centre) told reporters on 8 May that 240 police and fire officers were searching for the child.

Kate McCann is frequently seen clutching one of Madeleine's favourite toys.

Flowers and yellow ribbons are tied to railings in the McCanns' home village of Rothley, Leicestershire.

Kate McCann is blessed by Father Haynes Hubbard during a special church service in Praia Da Luz.

Intense media interest continues on 10 May as the police say they are scaling back local searches.

The strain of 6 days of uncertainty shows on the face of Kate McCann. She is carrying her younger daughter Amelie.