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Portuguese police announced that they are searching for a suspect in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, the 4-year-old British girl who vanished during a vacation in Portugal three weeks ago.
Chief investigating police officer Olegario Sousa said at a news conference that police are looking for a white man, between the ages of 35 and 40, who was wearing a dark jacket and light beige trousers and who was possibly carrying a little girl on May 3 in Praia da Luz, the date and place where Madeleine disappeared.
"The man was carrying a child or an object that could have been taken as a child," Sousa told journalists. He also said the man was 5 feet, 10 inches tall and of medium build.
Sousa urged anyone who might have seen the man to come forward and said police interviewed witnesses on Wednesday and Thursday. Sousa also said that Interpol has supplied information to the investigation and much information was coming in from sources abroad.
Madeleine's parents yesterday said that they believed a sighting of a possible suspect was "significant and relevant."
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