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Intensified search for Tori Stafford continues with no word of case breaks


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By The Canadian Press



WOODSTOCK, Ont. - Despite an "intensified" search for missing eight-year-old Victoria (Tori) Stafford, there have been no major breaks in the case, a police spokeswoman said Sunday.


A provincial police dive team continued scouring area waterways with sonar technology, while detectives canvassed neighbourhoods hoping to generate new leads.


Also, about 10 police vehicles were parked at a dead-end near thick, two-metre-tall reeds not far from the girl's home.


"We have nothing new or significant to bring anyone up to date with, but we're hoping with all these efforts that something becomes available to assist us in our focus, which is locating Tori," said Const. Laurie-Anne Maitland, with Oxford Community Police.


On Saturday, police used a small aircraft to conduct an aerial survey.


Tori has now been missing for 11 days. She was last seen leaving her school April 8 accompanied by an unidentified woman.


While her mother has urged police to extend searching beyond this small southwestern Ontario city, police continue to stay within city limits.


"To keep an investigation thorough, it's common practice to go over certain areas and make sure that every stone's been turned," Maitland said.


She says more than 1,000 tips have poured in and police are sifting through them one at a time.


So far, none has led to the identification of a woman with long brown hair wearing a puffy white coat captured in video surveillance walking with Tori around the time she went missing.