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Lisbon: Portuguese police on Sunday said that they cannot be sure of the fate of a toddler who went missing in Portugal on Thursday.
Chief Inspector Olegario Sousa said the question was "very difficult" to answer "because I have not facts to sustain that the child is alive or not".
Three-year-old Madeline McCann vanished from her bed in a popular resort in southern Portugal.
The McCann’s have been on television four times making impassioned appeals in the hope that whoever has the child will return her.
"Please, please do not hurt her. Please do not scare her. Please tell us where to find her or put her in a place of safety and let somebody know where she is," Kate McCann said.
The McCanns insist the disappearance is an abduction due to evidence of forced entry into the bedroom where she was sleeping.
British newspapers have been critical with the Portuguese police response to the case. The Guardian details the McCann’s frustration with the police, whilst the Daily Telegraph and The Sun say it was the couple, and not the Portugese police who pushed for a TV appeal as to her whereabouts.
Hundreds of locals and tourists have joined the search for the Madeleine, who disappeared while her parents were dining late on Thursday at the Praia da Luz resort village.
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