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There are no initial indications of foul play in the disappearance of a missing British teenager with learning difficulties, Malaysian police have said.

Schoolgirl Nora Quoirin, 15, was reported missing after her father said he could not see her in her bedroom on Sunday morning.

The Lucie Blackman Trust, a British charity supporting people during a crisis overseas, had quoted the girl's aunt as saying that the family considered her disappearance an abduction.

But police investigating in Malaysia say there is no initial assessment of foul play.

They said investigations were continuing into her disappearance, adding: “The case is still classified as missing persons. Not abduction.”

London teen Nora, who has special needs, arrived in the country with her family on Saturday for the “trip of a lifetime”.

She went missing while on a holiday with her family at the Dusun resort in a nature reserve near Seremban, 39 miles south of the capital Kuala Lumpur.

Nora's father raised the alarm when he discovered her missing from her bedroom at 8am local time on Sunday (1am UK time).

Her window had been opened.

Speaking from Belfast, Nora's aunt Aisling Agnew said: "Nora's parents and relatives in Ireland and France are distraught by her disappearance.

"Nora is a child with special needs and has learning and developmental disabilities which make her especially vulnerable and we fear for her safety.

"Nora would not know how to get help and would never leave her family voluntarily.

"We now consider this a criminal matter.

"We are appealing to everyone to assist the local police in any way they can and to pass on any information that would help locate our beloved Nora without delay."

Nora, whose mother Meabh is originally from Belfast and whose father is French, is understood to have been travelling on an Irish passport.

More than 160 people are now involved in the search for Nora, including police, members of the fire department, civil defence staff, volunteers corps, forestry department officials and indigenous Orang Asli guides.