NILAI — After eight days of intensive search, today, media personnel for the first time were invited to join the Search and Rescue (SAR) operation for missing Franco-Irish teenager Nora Anne Quoirin.
Nilai police chief Supt Mohd Nor Marzukee Besar extended the invitation via the whatApps application.
“Greetings.. Media who want to cover Op SAR can wait at the foothill of Gunung Berembun,” he said in his brief message.
Before this, the media were only allowed to wait at a tent provided near the entrance of the resort where the girl went missing and also at the Pantai police station in Seremban.
A press conference is scheduled be called on the SAR at 5 pm at the Pantai police station.
The SAR operation which enters the ninth day today involves 296 personnel.
Nora Anne, who has a learning disability, was reported missing after arriving at The Dusun Resort in Pantai with her parents from London on Aug 3 for a two-week vacation.
The teenager was discovered missing from her room at 8 am the next day.
Her case has drawn world attention and there is a large presence of foreign media due to the mystery of her missing.
— BERNAMA