Madeleine: more Malta 'sightings' probed

Police in Malta have received a host of new possible sightings of missing toddler Madeleine McCann from across the Mediterranean island.

The latest include a girl matching Madeleine's description boarding a yacht belonging to an Arab family.

There has also been a sighting by a Maltese woman, who reported seeing a girl resembling Madeleine on the Gozo ferry on June 20.

In another, a woman said her partner saw a "lookalike" of the youngster entering a private residence in Mellieha with a female.

A British woman told police she had seen a girl who looked like Madeleine at Qawra, but in another report, a man claimed to have seen a child resembling Madeleine in a pushchair at the B'Kara open market.

He claimed the girl was accompanied by three women dressed in Muslim attire pushing three pushchairs.

It is now more than 50 days since Madeleine was snatched from her bed in the holiday apartment in Praia de Luz, Portugal.

Her parents Gerry and Kate, remain in the Algarve heading up a campaign to find their missing daughter.

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