Forensic work has been underway at a property that is for sale in Trevor St, the one Bao was meant to show the buyer through.<\/p>\n
On Thursday evening Detective Inspector Nicola Reeves said police had been out in large numbers across Christchurch today as teams worked to locate and return Bao to her family.<\/p>\n
Staff in New Brighton Road and Lake Terrace Road and in the suburb of Greenpark have been conducting grid searches of the area.<\/p>\n
“We remain committed to finding Ms Bao and more people are expected to join the search tomorrow,” she said.<\/p>\n
Police Search and Rescue, LandSAR volunteers, Coastguard, Surf Lifesaving, a police specialist search group, a police dog team, Garden City Helicopters and Amateur Radio Emergency Communications (AREC) were expected to be on the ground, water and in the sky on Friday taking part in the search.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nA police vehicle in the Lake Ellesmere area.\u00a0<\/span>Photo:\u00a0RNZ \/ Nate McKinnon<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The helicopters will be assisting with an aerial search, predominantly of Lake Ellesmere, Reeves said.<\/p>\n The police national dive squad has been on the water in the Halswell River this week.<\/p>\n It has been assisted by Surf Lifesaving personnel throughout the operation, helping to search along the river’s banks in Inflatable Rescue Boats.<\/p>\n “The dive squad is utilising sonar technology to search beneath the surface of the water and identify anything that may be of interest,” Reeves said.<\/p>\n RNZ<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The search for the body of Christchurch real estate agent Yanfei Bao is being stepped up with more helicopters and people joining the operation. The 44-year-old went missing while door-knocking on 19 July. She was last seen on Trevor Street in Hornby, where she was meant to show a potential buyer through a house. Police […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6822,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820\/revisions\/6822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Police](\"https:\/\/rnz-ressh.cloudinary.com\/image\/upload\/s--Bx6VnWqr--\/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/v1690329274\/4L59MX4_MicrosoftTeams_image_14_png\")