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NILAI: The search for Irish teenager Nora Anne Quoirin, 15, which entered its third day today, focused on hilly terrain and a river.
Police, the Fire and Rescue Department, the Malaysian Civil Defence Force (APM), Rela, the Negeri Sembilan Forestry Department and villagers joined forces to look for Nora Anne, who went missing while on vacation with her family.
Negeri Sembilan police chief Mohamad Mat Yusof said the police units mobilised included the tracker dog unit and the Senoi Praaq Unit, involving a total of 178 members.
He said the operation covered a 4ha area around the resort where the family was staying and was assisted by an aerial search.
We have searched the hill many times,” he said, adding that the team would now focus on a river below in the hope that Nora Anne would try and look for water.
The teenager was reported missing on Aug 4 from her living room at the resort. Her family said she has a learning disability.
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A “WHITE woman” has reportedly been seen swimming in a Malaysian jungle river where cops are searching for missing Brit Nora Quoirin.
Sniffer dogs trying to track down the 15-year-old London girl initially picked up her scent within 4,000 feet of the remote resort she disappeared from at the weekend, but there’s no trace of her beyond that range, say police.
Sky News said that cops are investigating reports that the teen might have been spotted – as a “white woman” was apparently seen swimming in a river not far away, on Sunday afternoon.
Police have only received this information in the past few hours and are currently following it up, but are said to be unsure as to whether the eyewitness’s account is correct.
Negeri Sembilan police chief Mohamad Mat Yusop told reporters today: “We will do our very best. We will not give up hope. We believe that she didn’t go far and that she had lost her way.”
Mohamad said rescuers earlier today had repeated their search around the perimeter of the Dusun hill resort Nora had been staying with her family, because they believed she was still within the vicinity.
He said they would now focus on the foothill of the jungle resort near a river, based on the assumption that she would be in a weak state and could head downhill to find water and food.
Nora’s family said they discovered her missing from her bedroom at the Dusun eco-resort in southern Negeri Sembilan state on Sunday morning with the window left open.
More than 170 people have been involved in the search operation, with a helicopter, sniffer dogs and local villagers aiding in the expanded comb through the dense jungle, Mohamad said, adding that the search would continue through the night.
Local indigenous people, Orang Asli, are also helping to look for the girl.
LEARNING DISABILITIES
The parents of Nora Quoirin, who has learning and developmental disabilities, are an Irish-French couple who’ve lived in London for about 20 years, according to the Lucie Blackman Trust, a British charity support people during a crisis overseas.
In a statement, they said: “We are especially worried because Nora has learning and developmental disabilities and is not like other 15 year olds.
“She looks younger, she is not capable of taking care of herself and she won’t understand what is going on.
“She never goes anywhere by herself. We have no reason to believe she wandered off and is lost.”
Nora’s relatives have set up a GoFundMe page to raise money to fund the search.
It says: “Her parents and our families in Ireland and France are distraught by her disappearance.
“Nora is a child with special needs… which make her especially vulnerable and we fear for her safety.
“Nora would not know how to get help and would never leave her family voluntarily.
“Local police now consider this a criminal matter and are treating it as an abduction.”
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