Police in Malaysia are treating the disappearance of a 15-year-old girl from London as missing but people fear she has been abducted.
Nora Quoirin has special needs and was on holiday in Malaysia for a “trip of a lifetime”. Sadly on Sunday her parents woke up to see that she was missing. Nora have vanished from a resort near Seremban, which is about 40 miles south of the capital Kuala Lumpur.
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The Lucie Blackman Trust (LBT) said Nora’s father raised the alarm of her disappearance after seeing she was missing from her room and the window was wide open; LBT is now supporting the family.
More than 160 people are involved in the search of the 15 year old. In a statement on Facebook, the resort’s owners said they were “extremely distressed and worried” and “pray for [Nora’s] safety”. The resort is working with the police.
Speaking from Belfast, Nora’s aunt Aisling Agnew said: “Nora’s parents and relatives in Ireland and France are distraught by her disappearance.
“Nora is a child with special needs and has learning and developmental disabilities 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.
“We now consider this a criminal matter.”
The LBT’s chief executive Matthew Searle said: “This is a very vulnerable young girl missing in a remote location.
“She has been missing for over 24 hours now and it is imperative that every resource available is deployed to search for her.”
The resort the family are staying at is called Dusun and it is situated in the foothills of the Titiwangsa mountains and also is beside the 4,000-acre Berembun Forest Reserve.
The search continues…
