Major search for four-year-old girl missing from backyard in southern Tasmania

Searchers have found one of the two dogs Shayla Phillips was last seen playing with in Stormlea, south-east of Hobart, but there is no sign of the girl

A major search is under way in Tasmania after a four-year-old girl disappeared from a backyard in an isolated area south-east of Hobart on Wednesday afternoon.

Shayla Phillips was last seen playing with two dogs in a yard on Stormlea Road in Stormlea, near Port Arthur, about 2.30pm. She was wearing pink leggings, a cream top and gumboots.

More than 20 police officers and state emergency service volunteers searched the area overnight, along with a Westpac rescue helicopter, police drone unit and specialist dogs.

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