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UPDATE: Search for missing Winnipeg teen continues, family looking outside city limits

WATCH: Global's Lorraine Nickel brings you more into the search for missing Winnipeg teen Cooper James Nemeth. – Feb 18, 2016

WINNIPEG — Friends and family hoping to find 17-year-old Cooper Nemeth, are expanding their search efforts outside of the city on Thursday.

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This comes after the website, FindCip.com, posted an update saying they are searching in the Selkirk and Lockport area, looking in camp sites, forests, parks, abandoned buildings and warehouses.

READ MORE: Police looking for two witnesses in case of missing Winnipeg teen

They will also be scouring the streets of Transcona, St. Boniface and downtown Winnipeg.

People will be meeting at the gateway Community Club at 10 a.m. on Thursday.

Winnipeg Police Service Ground Search and Rescue (GSAR) unit were searching north of the Perimeter Highway along Henderson Highway for much of Thursday morning and afternoon.

The owner of Robin’s Donuts on Selkirk Avenue told Global News that police looked at surveillance video Wednesday after a customer thought he saw Nemeth Monday morning. He wasn’t seen in the footage.

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On Wednesday night, search volunteers focused their efforts in the area near Siloam Mission, Arlington Street and Higgins Avenue.

RELATED: The role of social media as a tool to help solve a missing persons case

Many people have taken to social media using the hashtag #findcip to coordinate search efforts.

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