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A young girl photographed in Morocco is not the missing British toddler Madeleine McCann, according to British media reports on Wednesday.
The Evening Standard newspaper featured a new photo of the child, said to be the daughter of a local olive farmer, under the headline "It's not her."
Reporters descended on the remote hillside village of Zinat in the north of the country after the image of the young girl being carried on a Moroccan woman's back was flashed around the world as a possible sighting of four-year-old Madeleine.
But it quickly emerged that the girl in the photograph was believed by villagers to be 5-year-old Bushra Binhisa, the daughter of an olive farmer.
A Spanish couple had taken the picture. They were vacationing in Morroco in late August, and were taking pictures of pretty much everything. The blonde girl caught their eye, so they snapped one of her as well.
It really sucks that it's not really her. I'm sure the parents and many others around the world (considering how large this story is) all got their hopes up, only to have them crushed so soon after. Well, the search goes on.
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