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Police: British girl may be dead
(AP)
Updated: 2007-08-13 10:20
PRAIA DA LUZ, Portugal?-- Police investigating the disappearance of a
four-year-old British girl at a Portuguese resort are now considering the
possibility that she might be dead, a senior official says.
Players from Newcastle United and Bolton Wanderers greet each other
wearing shirts printed with the missing Madelaine McCann, before their
English Premier League soccer match in Bolton, northern England August
11, 2007. [Reuters]
Four-year-old Madeleine McCann has been missing for 100 days.
1 of 2 Investigators say Madeleine McCann vanished May 3 from an
apartment where she was sleeping with her two-year-old twin siblings in a
tourist complex on Portugal's southern Algarve resort coast while her
parents were dining in the hotel's restaurant.
"In the past few days there have been some developments, some clues that
have been found that could point to the possible death of the little
child," investigator Olegario Sousa said Saturday.
"All lines of inquiry are open, but this line has a little more
intensity," added Sousa.
Three days after she went missing, a Portuguese police spokesman based in
the regional capital Faro said evidence pointed to a possible abduction
which could have had "sexual" motives.
However, Portuguese newspaper Jornal de Noticias reported Monday that
highly trained sniffer dogs brought from Britain found traces of blood on
a wall in the room where the children had been sleeping on the night
Madeleine disappeared.
The newspaper report, which did not cite sources, said investigators were
analyzing if the blood was Madeleine's. It also said there was evidence
someone tried to wipe away specks of blood off a wall.
Police in Britain are reportedly testing samples to determine if it is
blood, and the find has fueled speculation that the child could have been
harmed or murdered in the room.
Portuguese police and British detectives returned last week to search the
home of 33-year-old Briton Robert Murat, the only named suspect in the
disappearance.
Using rakes and hedge cutters, police cleared vegetation from the grounds
of the house where Murat lives, which is about 100 yards from where
Madeleine was last seen.
A hundred days after girl's disappearance, her parents joined a church
congregation in prayers for her safe return in this seaside resort on
Saturday.
Dozens of journalists and curious tourists crowded the approaches to the
town's small church as the McCann family arrived for the service, one of
several events planned to mark 100 days of the British girl's
disappearance.
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