Police considering next move in search for missing Mount Nelson man
Police are assessing their options for the resumption of a massive ground search for a man reported missing from the Hobart suburb of Mount Nelson.
Shaun Cousins, 43, disappeared from his Mount Nelson home on Sunday night about 10:00pm.
Police and emergency crews, volunteers and family members searched tracks in the area as they tried to find the keen bushwalker.
Sergeant John Delpero from Tasmania Police said authorities would review and reassess the situation this morning.
"There were areas that we identified, they're the areas that we exhausted and that is actually over six square kilometres that's been searched on foot," he said.
"Some of which through some pretty thick vegetation and with the helicopter about some 12 square kilometres was checked and searched."
Acting Sergeant James Craig said it was hard to guess why Mr Cousins was missing.
"No motive or suspicion or anything in relation to this," he said.
"The family basically have no clue as to why he may not have come back and our main concern is we're concentrating on the local area in case he may well have injured himself and is on a track somewhere there."
Police said the missing man was a seasoned bushwalker and regularly walked around the Mount Nelson area.
Acting Sergeant Craig said about 50 police and SES volunteers searched the area on foot.
"At this point in time, obviously, the only concern is that he might be injured," he said.
"He is not with his vehicle, he is known to go walking each morning though so that's not unusual, so we're just concentrating on the local area due to that information."
