Expert: Search for missing girl extraordinary
Authorities searched again Tuesday for a 3-year-old Lewis County girl in what a national expert called an aggressive and extraordinary four-day effort.
Aliayah Lunsford vanished from her home in Bendale Saturday morning, and hundreds of people have been helping local, state and federal authorities try to find her.
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Search for missing girl continues in "very confined" area
A collaborative effort was the theme of a news conference about the missing 3-year-old W.Va. girl.
The search for Aliayah Lunsford entered in its fourth day Tuesday. She vanished from her Bendale home Saturday.
"We’re trying hard to not miss anything we’re bringing in experts who have worked this type of matter, do it on regular basis that’ll help us in terms of helping where we’ve been and where we need to go," said John Hambrick, special agent with the FBI.
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Searchers for young girl reorganizing
Police in Lewis County are repeating their steps as they continue to search for a young girl from the community of Bendale.
Aliayah Lunsford, 3, was last seen early Saturday morning by her mother.
Lewis County Sheriff's Dept. Sgt. Mike Posey told MetroNews Tuesday afternoon investigators were planning on going door-to-door again in the small community south of Weston. Divers were also back in the nearby West Fork River.
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Officials still hoping to locate missing girl
A couple thousand volunteers and several law enforcement agencies have been involved in the search for a 3-year-old girl who turned up missing from her family's home on Saturday morning.
Officials remain hopeful they will find Aliayah (uh-LEE-uh) Lunsford, who was last seen at her home in the small community of Bendale outside Weston at 6:30 a.m. that day.
Although the Lewis County Sheriff's Department is leading the investigation, the FBI is taking a larger role.
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