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Police Believe Missing 5yo Girl Still Alive After Alleged Abduction From Alice Springs Home
Investigators are examining a crime scene behind the Old Timers town camp for items of interest as the extensive search for missing five-year-old Sharon Granites continues.
- Northern Territory Police and volunteers entered the third day of a massive search for five-year-old Sharon Granites, who disappeared from her home near Alice Springs early on Sunday.
- Police allege 47-year-old Jefferson Lewis, a recently released prisoner, lured Sharon away from her Old Timers town camp residence on Saturday night after being seen holding the girl's hand.
- About 70 volunteers, emergency personnel, and Australian Defence Force members are scouring "dense bushland" using heat-seeking drones and helicopters, though thick buffel grass makes the operation "slow going."
- Acting Assistant Commissioner Peter Malley confirmed investigators located "items of interest" near the Alice Springs Telegraph Station, maintaining that despite no confirmed sightings, the mission is to find the girl alive.
- Tangentyere Council president Maxine Carlton and police urged Alice Springs residents to "keep their eyes and ears open" for any information as authorities continue pleading for public assistance.
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‘There’s no trace’: NT Police believe young girl’s suspected abductor is being helped
NT Police believe time is running out to find a five-year-old girl alive, four days after she was suspected to have been taken from a camp near Alice Springs.
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