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Police and volunteers will scour Northland farmland along State Highway 1 this weekend in a bid to finding a Korean man missing for more than six months.
Hyung Jun Cho disappeared after his car crashed off the road about 2km north of Kaiwaka early on December 9.
Whangarei police Detective Sergeant John Clayton said about 30 police and Northland Land Search and Rescue volunteers would comb paddocks, bush, creeks and holes and caves on Saturday and the wider area around where Mr Cho's car was found.
Mangrove areas near bridges on the main road would also be searched. Cadaver dogs were also being considered for the search. "We have made extensive appeals through the media and done extensive inquiries and there is nothing to suggest he made it to the roadside," Mr Clayton said.
Police searched the area after Mr Cho, 28, was reported missing and aerial searches also failed to turn up any clues. No one has seen or heard from Mr Cho since. His cellphone remains unused and his bank accounts untouched.
Mr Cho was driving a white Mitsubishi Lancer, registration DME 693, when he was last spotted at the Caltex service station in Wellsford on the day he went missing.
Mr Clayton said a briefing for searchers would be held at the Kaiwaka St John Ambulance Station on Saturday at 9am.
- NORTHERN ADVOCATE
