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| Nora Quoirin: Body found in Malaysia search for missing girl | Nora Quoirin: Body found in Malaysia search for missing girl |
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| A body has been found in the search for a vulnerable 15-year-old girl who went missing in Malaysia. | |
| Nora Quoirin, who has special needs, disappeared from her room at the Dusan resort on 4 August. | Nora Quoirin, who has special needs, disappeared from her room at the Dusan resort on 4 August. |
| Malaysian police confirmed rescuers had found a body on Tuesday near where Nora was reported missing. | |
| Missing persons charity the Lucie Blackman Trust said the body had not been identified but was "likely" to be the teenager, from London. | |
| About 350 people had been searching for Nora in dense jungle near the resort. | |
| BBC correspondent Howard Johnson said the body had been found just over a mile (2km) away from the Dusan. | |
| Authorities had been treating Nora's disappearance as a missing persons case, but her family believe she may have been abducted. | |
| On Monday, her parents Meabh and Sebastien, a French-Irish couple who have lived in London for 20 years, put up a 50,000 Malaysian ringgit (£10,000 reward) for help to find their daughter. | |
| While announcing the reward, they described the 15-year-old as being "so precious to us", adding their "hearts are breaking". |