A new search for the remains of missing US teenager Natalee Holloway will get under way in Aruba this weekend. Dave Holloway, father of the missing girl, has sent a specially trained tracker dog to the island. Mr Holloway is concentrating the search at a flooded dam.

The Aruban authorities believe the search is a waste of time but have agreed to co-operate. The public prosecutor's office says it will take a few more months to conclude the enquiry into Natalee Holloway's disappearance.

Natalee Holloway disappeared on 30 May 2005, on the final night of her high school graduation trip to the Caribbean island. In 2008, Dutch student Joran van der Sloot was secretly filmed confessing that he saw her die on the beach and had a friend dispose of her body. He later told police that his story was a lie.

Aruba is a former colony of, and now an autonomous region within, the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Together with Bonaire and Curaçao, it forms part of the Lesser Antilles island chain. It is a popular tourist destination for visitors from the United States.