- Title: Volunteers hikers claim they found Nora's body
- Date: 14th August 2019
- Summary: SEREMBAN, MALAYSIA (AUGUST 14, 2019) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) HIKER VOLUNTEER TO HELP SEARCH, SHERLEY YAP, SAYING: "12 (p.m.) noon we reported ourselves at the Dusun resort. We had met a local Indian man, who his family live in this area, to assist us in this search. At about 12:15 p.m. we started the search. We had 25 members altogether including the Indian man. So, from the resort to the entrance of the oil palm plantation is about one kilometre. From there we start the search about 20 minutes down the trail in the palm plantation. We had stopped and formed a line of 12 members on each side of the trail. So, we all have started to search down towards the stream. We were given about 30 minutes to search the area both left and right sides from the middle trail and regroup again. After 30 minutes we regroup back and from there we head straight down hill and uphill towards a small stream." HIKER VOLUNTEERS SEATED TOGETHER AT TABLE (SOUNDBITE) (English) HIKER VOLUNTEER TO HELP SEARCH, SHERLEY YAP, SAYING: "One of our member, the first in line, saw the body lying across a small stream." HIKER VOLUNTEERS SEATED TOGETHER AT TABLE (SOUNDBITE) (English) HIKER VOLUNTEER TO HELP SEARCH, SHERLEY YAP, SAYING: "We had stopped about 10 meters away from the body. We all understood we should not go too close to the scene of the body. We don't want to destroy or disturb any evidence, if there is. We also understood we do not take any picture of the body of the scene. So we all did not have any in our phones. It was about 1:40 p.m.; we had found the body." HIKER VOLUNTEERS SEATED TOGETHER AT TABLE HIKER VOLUNTEERS STANDING UP FROM TABLE
- Embargoed: 28th August 2019 07:42
- Keywords: Malaysia Ireland girl Nora Anne Quoirin volunteer news conference
- Location: SEREMBAN, MALAYSIA
- City: SEREMBAN, MALAYSIA
- Country: Malaysia
- Topics: Disaster/Accidents
- Reuters ID: LVA001AS6UO93
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A group of 24 volunteers claimed that they found the body of 15-year-old Nora Anne Quoirin, giving details in a statement on Wednesday (August 14).
Volunteer hiker, Sherley Yap, said their group was assisted by a local Indian man who lives in the area. On Tuesday (August 13) they had searched the area close to the Dusun resort where Quoirin went missing; separating into two groups when walking down the stream.
At around 1.40 pm (0540 GMT), the person in front spotted the body in a stream and immediately called the police without entering the scene.
Police on Tuesday identified the body as belonging to 15-year-old Nora Anne Quoirin, 10 days after she went missing from a rainforest resort in Seremban, about 70 km (44 miles) south of the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur. Results of an autopsy are expected later in the day, police said.
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