BY JORDAN REGNIS
A multi-agency search is underway to locate a man missing from the Hunter Valley.
Keith Banks, aged 81, was last seen leaving a home on Stewarts Road, Woolooma, about 1pm on Monday.
Police and family hold serious concerns for his welfare due to him living with dementia and requires medicatication.
Inquiries reveal he went to a service station at Gundy about 1:30pm on Monday before driving away.
Following inquiries his dark grey Honda Civic sedan was found bogged in bushland about 4pm yesterday.
A land search began at 8am today at Upper Rouchel in the Upper Hunter.
Local police are being assisted by Police Rescue, PolAir and the NSW State Emergency Service.
Anyone with information into Keith's whereabouts is urged to contact Crime Stoppers.
