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Members of a mountain rescue team search the River Dyfi as the hunt for missing April Jones continues on Oct. 4 in Machynlleth, Wales.
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Police forensic officers enter Mark Bridger's house in Esgairgeiliog, Mid Wales on Oct. 4. Police continued to question Bridger about the disappearance of five-year-old April Jones, who went missing from her home town of Machynlleth, on Monday.
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Missing five-year-old girl April Jones.
The search for a missing five-year-old girl in a rural area of Wales was stepped up on Thursday, three days after she went missing. Jones was last seen getting into a vehicle on Monday near her home in the rural market town of Machynlleth.
Police have arrested 46-year-old Mark Bridger in connection with her disappearance.
Rescuers appealed for volunteers with "good local knowledge" to search 32 villages around the town as it emerged that the missing girl needs regular medication for cerebral palsy.
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Volunteer Kirsty Kelly helps to search for missing schoolgirl April Jones, near Aberangell, Mid Wales on Oct. 4.
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Is there any chance that this little girl is still alive? Either way, this is simply tragic. Let us pray for her and her family and do whatever we can as a community to help them out, however this story ends.
I hope she is found alive and well. I also believe its time to bring back public executions for child murder or child rape. Not very nice, I know, but this has become too common and too many are repeat offenders.
A civilized society does not host public executions. A savage society does. I understand your anger, but the solution to not to turn our society into something that the Taliban would be proud of.
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster." (Friedrich Nietzsche)
a civilized society doesnt abduct and kill children either so?.........
I guess there are sickos all over the world. Hope they find this little girl alive.
Machynlleth is one of our favourite places; just three weeks ago we spent a lovely four days there. I never would have guessed this was in their future... it is such a peaceful, quiet town. It is lovely to see how the local community are working together with the police and April's family --what an inspiration, in spite of the sadness of the situation.