The search for missing schoolgirl Arlene Arkinson was called off today after heavy rain made it impossible for the search to continue at bogland near her home town of Castlederg, Co.Tyrone.
PSNI Detective Inspector John Gilmore said: "Depending on the weather, we hope to go back in a week or so. In the meantime, we are getting on with other work."
Missing poster for schoolgirl Arlene Arkinson
Police had sealed off six acres of land on the Drumquin Road as part of the search operation.
Arlene, 15, disappeared in August 1994 after she left to go to a disco in Bundoran, Co Donegal with serial sex attacker Robert Howard, 61, who last month was cleared of her murder.
Scientists, a victims recovery dog from South Yorkshire police and a special adviser from the National Crime Operations Faculty at Bramshill had been involved in the search.