The premier of Nova Scotia says two young children missing for two and a half weeks in Pictou County is hard on the entire community.
Lilly and Jack Sullivan, six and four years old, wandered away from home on Gairloch Road near Lansdowne Station, May 2.
Tim Houston tells reporters Tuesday it is devastating.
“It’s weighing heavy certainly on the minds of people in Pictou County and well beyond as well,” says Houston.
His comments come after ground search and rescue crews scoured the area again over the weekend looking for the brother and sister but uncovered no new evidence.
Saturday and Sunday more than 115 volunteers took to the air and ground looking for Lilly and Jack, focusing on specific areas on Gairloch Road.
This, after a massive search that lasted six days covering 5.5 square kilometres of thick woods and rural land, involving more than 160 volunteers who put in tens of thousands of search hours.
However, it was scaled back on May 7 to look deeper into targeted areas, like this one.
Underwater search teams looked in bodies of water around Lansdowne Station on May 8 and 9 but found no evidence.
Next steps
Now RCMP say, what came of the weekend’s search will be “carefully reviewed and assessed by investigators and search managers to help in planning any further ground and air search efforts.”
Police are looking into 180 tips from the public, as well as interviewing 35 people for the case, including those closest to Lilly and Jack.
They ask anyone with information to come forward.
