Cleo Smith: Missing 4-year-old found alive in Australia

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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, police have said. Cleo Smith disappeared from her family’s tent at a campsite near the town of Carnarvon on 16 October, triggering a massive search. A 36-year-old man is in custody and being questioned by detectives. Police smashed their way into a home in Carnarvon in the early hours of Wednesday, following forensic clues. “They found little Cleo in one of the rooms,” Deputy Commissioner Col Blanch from WA Police said in a statement. “One of the officers picked her up into his arms and asked her, ‘What’s your name?’ She said ‘My name is Cleo’.”(BBC)…[+]