Greek police use drones to search for missing health guru Dr Michael Mosley amid an 'extreme' 38C heatwave. The Mail columnist was last seen by his wife Dr Claire Bailey at the picturesque St Nikolas Beach.
Divers and sniffer dogs joined the search for missing health guru Dr Michael Mosley today amid an 'extreme' 38C heatwave.
Police are working on the theory that the medic may have been bitten by a snake or somehow became disoriented as temperatures were around 35C at the time he vanished. The understanding, a senior police official said, was that he would trek to Pedi and take the bus from there to Symi's capital, near where the couple was staying. Search crews were retracing the entire path, also speaking to bus drivers to trace his path.
There are several rocky outcrops along the route to Pedi and it was feared Dr Mosley could have fallen into the sea. A rescue official in Symi told MailOnline: 'This woman said she saw him by the bus stop and she recognised him and at first we thought it was possible. Police and Dr Bailey rushed to the Katsaras restaurant to look at the footage and despite the amazing similarity it was ruled out after she said it was not her husband.Terrain near the pathway to St Nikolas Beach, where Dr Mosley set off hiking on WednesdayA sign at St Nicolas beach, where Dr Mosley set off hiking on WednesdayThe owner, who declined to be named, showed MailOnline the footage but refused to release it and the resemblance was uncanny.
The owner said: 'When we heard the man was missing we checked the CCTV and saw this guy walking past. An official also told MailOnline that a possible sighting of Dr Mosley in a cafe at Panormitis in the south of Symi around 30 minutes away had been ruled out. A statement from local police said officers were informed about the 'disappearance of the 67-year-old British national on the island' on Wednesday.
He told the BBC: 'It is a very small, controlled area, full of people. So, if something happened to him there, we would have found him by now.' A friend of the person Mosley was staying with said she was struggling to understand how anyone could get lost on the part of the island he was believed to be on.
'So, it is probably a 20-minute walk down the side of the mountain, but it's not overly rugged or something that would be seen to be too dangerous, it's something that tourists do every day in the summer.A local Facebook group said Mosley went for a walk from St Nikolas Beach at about 1.30pm Greek time on Wednesday.
Trust Me I'm A Doctor star Saleyha Ahsan wrote on social media that the news of Dr Mosley's disappearance was 'shocking' and that she was hoping Mosley would be 'found safe'.Dr Mosley's wife, Dr Clare Bailey , a GP and also a columnist for the Mail, raised the alarm after her husband of nearly 40 years failed to return from a hike
Greek police spokesman Constantina Dimoglidou told the Mail: 'Any and every attempt to track him down has not produced any result.'There is just no trace of him. None whatsoever. And that means that for us at least, every potential scenario is open and being investigated.' Dr Mosley married Clare in 1987, after meeting in medical school, and they have four children together
A Foreign Office spokesman said: 'We are supporting the family of a British man who is missing in Greece and are in contact with the local authorities.'Dr Michael Mosley is one of Britain's most well-known doctors, who rose to fame with television appearances and a string of best-selling diet books. In his journalistic career he has worked alongside the likes of John Cleese, Jeremy Clarkson, Professor Robert Winston and Sir David Attenborough.
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