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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Sarah Collard Indigenous affairs correspondent

‘We’re coming for you’: NT police search for suspect after body of missing five-year-old found

A line of police officers and volunteer searchers scour bushland opposite the racecourse as the search for the missing five-year-old girl enters its fifth day.
A line of police officers and volunteer searchers scour bushland south of Alice Springs as the search for the missing five-year-old girl enters its fifth day. Photograph: Em Jensen/The Guardian

Police in the Northern Territory are searching for a man they suspect of murder after finding a body believed to be that of a five-year-old girl who went missing from Alice Springs on Saturday.

The NT police commissioner, Martin Dole, told reporters the tragic discovery was made just before noon local time on Thursday, about 5km south of Old Timers town camp, where she was last seen. The girl’s family requested she be referred to as Kumanjayi Little Baby, in line with cultural protocols.

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