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4-year- girl found alive after 18 days of missing in Australia

Published : 03 Nov 2021, 01:59

DF News Desk

Cleo Smith and her family were on the first night of a camping holiday when she disappeared. Photo: WA POLICE.

A four-year-old girl missing for 18 days in a remote part of Western Australia has been found alive and well in a locked house, reported British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), quoting police.

Cleo Smith disappeared from her family's tent at a campsite near the town of Carnarvon on 16 October, triggering a massive search effort.

Police smashed their way into a locked house in Carnarvon at 01:00 local time, where they found her, said the BBC report.

A man from Carnarvon is in custody and being questioned by detectives.

"A police team broke their way into a locked house... They found little Cleo in one of the rooms," Western Australian Deputy Commissioner Col Blanch said in a statement on Wednesday.

Click BBC to read the detail report.