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9th March 2016
01:43pm GMT

'My team and I received the information that Madeleine arrived in Paraguay a month or two ago and is living in Areguá in the custody of a woman.'Madeleine vanished from her bedroom at a Praia de Luz resort in the Algarve on May 3, 2007. Nine years and thousands of 'sightings' later, police are no closer to finding the child, who would now be 12. Age-progressed images suggest she may look like this:
Local deputy chief commissioner Sanny Amarilla said local police are taking the tip seriously:
"This news stretches across the globe, it is very important. So if they are in the area we need to find this girl and return her to her family. 'We are investigating neighbourhoods where there are foreign citizens, villas, condos, to see if there is someone with a similar description that corresponds to the newspaper clipping."While the search is ongoing, Interpol inspector Luis Ignacio Arias told EFE that the agency has zero 'concrete' information on the man who made the claims. A spokesman for Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann said the family is aware of the latest reported sighting.
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