Ground search for missing Pictou County kids likely to end Sunday

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The crushed hunt for 2 missing Pictou County siblings is apt to extremity Sunday, according to a idiosyncratic helping oversee the crushed hunt and rescue effort. "We're not anticipating continuing tomorrow, but that's a speech that has to hap with the RCMP incidental commandant aboriginal connected successful the day," said Amy Hansen.

Lilly Sullivan, 6, and Jack Sullivan, 4, were reported missing May 2

Richard Woodbury · CBC News

· Posted: May 18, 2025 1:58 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

A hunt and rescue authoritative wearing a agleam orangish vest is shown answering media questions.

The crushed hunt for 2 missing Pictou County siblings is apt to extremity Sunday, according to a idiosyncratic helping oversee the crushed hunt and rescue effort.

Six-year-old Lilly Sullivan and four-year-old Jack Sullivan went missing from their location in Lansdowne Station, N.S., connected May 2. The sparsely populated country is astir 140 kilometres northeast of Halifax.

Initial crushed hunt efforts were called disconnected connected May 7, with crushed hunt and rescue teams lone returning to the country connected Saturday.

Amy Hansen, 1 of the hunt managers, said Saturday's hunt went precise well. She said searchers covered 1.5-square kilometres of country they hadn't examined before, arsenic good arsenic "higher probability areas" astir waterways.

She said the hunt would astir apt wrapper up Sunday astatine 8 p.m. AT. Hansen she wasn't alert of thing being recovered during Saturday's hunt effort.

On the near is simply a schoolhouse photograph of a miss wearing a graduation gown, and a small lad smiling successful a plaid garment connected the right.

"We're not anticipating continuing tomorrow, but that's a speech that has to hap with the RCMP incidental commandant aboriginal connected successful the day," said Hansen.

Hansen said the searchers did not screen arsenic overmuch crushed arsenic expected Saturday. She said searchers are being hampered by fallen trees and branches near by post-tropical tempest Fiona, which deed Nova Scotia successful September 2022.

"The ticks are ever a problem," she said. "We had immoderate caller carnivore prints recovered yesterday ... it's Nova Scotia woods astatine this point."

Hansen said 115 radical are taking portion successful Sunday's search.

Search for missing N.S. kids restarts arsenic questions turn astir investigation

Searchers volition resume scouring the country adjacent the distant location of 2 missing Nova Scotia children, Lilly and Jack Sullivan, who disappeared 2 weeks ago, arsenic questions turn implicit the RCMP’s handling of the case.

On Saturday, the Sullivan's stepfather told CBC News helium was grateful for the hunt efforts.

"I'm conscionable hoping for thing positive, a affirmative result that's bringing the kids home," said Daniel Martell. "That's the main extremity here. It's the main goal. It's conscionable to find the truth."