Community support as search continues

The Coromandel community is rallying in support of search and rescue teams as they continue to look for Lucas Cochrane.

About 30 search specialists are working to find the 19-year-old, who was last seen at a function at the Whitianga Fire Station just before midnight on Saturday.


Lucas Cochrane, inset, was last seen on Saturday night. Photos: NZ Police.

About a dozen family and friends of Lucas are also assisting in the search, including his parents.

'The teams continue to look for him in a mixed environment of properties, farms, small pockets of bush, roadways and waterways,” says a statement from police.

'The Police helicopter Eagle has also been brought in to assist.


Baking and other goodies.

'Police co-ordinating the search are grateful to local people for providing home baking and other refreshments to everyone involved in the effort to find Lucas.”

He is European, 182cm tall and of medium build with short sandy coloured hair.

When he was last seen, he was wearing a black t-shirt, dark blue jeans, black peaked cap and white Nike shoes with red and blue on them.

Anyone who has information about Lucas' whereabouts is asked to contact Police immediately on 111.

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