British girl (3) missing in Algarve

A three-year-old British girl has gone missing in a Portuguese beach resort in the Algarve.

A three-year-old British girl has gone missing in a Portuguese beach resort in the Algarve.

A Portuguese police spokeswoman said they are investigating the case.

Jill Renwick, a family friend, told BBC she was sure that three-year-old Madeleine McCann had been abducted. "She's obviously been taken - she couldn't have gone out on her own and the shutters were forced open," she said.

The girl's parents had put her to bed and were eating dinner 50 metres away with friends. "They went back to check on her - the window had been opened and she'd been taken," Jill Renwick said.

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In London, the Foreign Office said the incident was being treated as a missing person case.

The Ocean Club resort in the western Algarve where the family was staying with several other couples said in a statement that police, staff and locals were searching the area.