The police dig for missing British girl Madeleine McCann found a hidden, sealed-off cellar under an allotment used by the prime suspect — sending cadaver sniffing dogs wild, according to reports.
Investigators found the cellar during a two-day dig under a German allotment previously used by jailed pedophile Christian Brückner — and abandoned since 2007, the year then-3-year-old McCann went missing, The Sun said.
Police dogs started barking as soon as a cement block covering the basement was lifted off Wednesday, according to The Telegraph.
“The sniffer dogs were barking quite a lot in the morning,” one witness to the dig in Seelze, just outside Hannover, told the UK paper.
German police have previously hinted at unspecified evidence that proves McCann is dead after she was taken from a vacation resort in Portugal.
Brückner, 43, has been identified as a prime suspect but not charged. He has denied any involvement.
Officials confirmed that the dig was connected to the McCann case but did not detail what — if any — evidence was found, the reports said.
Local media said that the police were looking for clothes or even the remains of a body, The Times of London said.
