AAP General News (Australia)
08-11-2000
Qld; Search resumes for missing father and three children
BRISBANE, Aug 11 AAP - An air, sea and ground search resumed this morning for a father
and his three young children, missing on the north Queensland coast.
A fishermen found a rented dinghy and camping equipment just east of Round Top Island
near the mouth of the Pioneer River, south of Mackay yesterday morning.
But there was no sign of 37-year-old Mark McDonald, or his children, three year-old
Jack, two-year-old Brian and five-year-old Brett, police spokesman Brian Swift said.
The three children live with their mother at Pindi Pindi, about 60 km north of Mackay.
Mr Swift said Mr McDonald had called there on an "unplanned access visit" on Wednesday
and told his defacto wife that he was taking the children on a camping trip to Campwin
Beach, south of Mackay.
A utility rented by Mr McDonald was also found at the beach.
Mr Swift said the search this morning would involve police, a helicopter, several boats
and State Emergency Services volunteers.
They will cover an area from Round Top Island south to Sarina.
AAP rad/cjh
KEYWORD: CHILDREN SECOND DAYLEAD
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