Missing Nora Quoirin: Mum's voice used in search

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A recording of a mother calling out the name of her missing daughter is being used by police searching the Malaysian jungle for the teenager.

Police believe Nora Quoirin, 15, who has special needs, remains in the vicinity of the Dusan resort from where she vanished on Sunday.

Loudhailers are playing a clip of Meabh Quoirin calling out Nora's name in the search of an area of nearby rainforest.

Police remain hopeful she is lost but her family fear she has been abducted.

Nora, her parents Meabh and Sebastian - an Irish-French couple from London - and her younger brother and sister arrived at the resort near Seremban, about 39 miles south of Kuala Lumpur, on Saturday for a two-week stay.

Her father raised the alarm the following morning when she was found to be missing from her bedroom with the window open.

Malaysian police have "not ruled out anything" but are treating the 15-year-old's disappearance as a missing persons case.

During their search, teams played out a recording of Nora's mother calling her daughter's name in the hope that it would draw her towards the sound.

"We played the recording using loudhailers," said Mohamad Mat Yusop, police chief of southern Negeri Sembilan state.

He added that voices of other family members would also be used.

Officers have been divided into six teams who are searching an area of jungle about 2.5 sq miles in size.

"We hope that on this fifth day we will be successful in finding the missing victim," district police chief Mohamad Nor Marzukee Besar said.

Nora's relatives have told the BBC it was "unthinkable" the teenager, who has special needs, had left her room on her own.

Her grandfather Sylvain Quoirin described her as "very shy, very reserved, very fearful".

"In my opinion, the adventure escapade line of inquiry is not at all valid," he said.

An online fundraising page set up to cover "unforeseen expenses or charges" as family members join the search in Malaysia has raised more than £55,000.

Missing persons charity the Lucie Blackman Trust, which is supporting the family, has provided a hotline and email address for information.

People can remain anonymous and can call +448000988485 or email ops@lbtrust.org.