Cops have been carrying out a meticulous search of the semi-detached property since Saturday afternoon - together with a black Vauxhall car found nearby
Police searching for missing teenager Becky Watts have reportedly been seen digging up the garden of a house six miles from her family's home.
Cops have been carrying out a meticulous search of the semi-detached property since Saturday afternoon.
A black car has also been examined since being picked up in the same streeet.
Neighbours reported forensics teams hunting through the boot of the Vauxhall Zafira which had been on the street for more than a week, but did not belong to any locals.
Today forensics officers were walking in and out of the house in Wilton Close, Southmead, Bristol, carrying evidence bags, with an officer standing at the gate.
Locals said police had been searching the two-storey house constantly since Saturday, and that it was privately rented by a family with two or three children.
There was no sign of the residents - reported to be staying in a local hotel - and it is not clear whether they are connected to the two people currently being questioned by police.
Neighbours said officers had been conducting door-to-door enquiries since Saturday, with police asking if they knew Becky and showing them photos of the teenager.
One neighbour, who asked not be be named, said they believed the garden of the property was being dug up.
Another neighbour said tonight: "They were here yesterday at about four in the afternoon.
"There was this black car parked up and they were looking in the boot and then they took it away with a crane thing.
"The forensics officers have been here ever since, taking things in and out in bags.
"My son came home at 4am and the police were still there."
One anonymous neighbour told the Bristol Post that they believed the garden of the property was being dug up.
Another woman who lives on the road said: "They keep themselves to themselves really.
"There is an older woman who is on a mobility scooter, and she takes around a little lad about two, up and down the road.
"I think there is another woman, and two girls, maybe about 11 and eight."
Police officers extended the cordon around the property at about 5pm on Sunday as residents gathered in the road.
The semi-detached property stands at the end of the street next to an overgrown outside area, filled with rubbish and old cars.
A spokesman for Avon and Somerset Police confirmed the hunt at the property was linked to the search for missing Becky Watts.
He said: "It is a line of enquiry we are looking into at the moment into the Becky Watts missing persons enquiry.
"It is only one of a number we are looking into."
He would not confirm if officers had been digging in the garden.