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Madeleine McCann spotted in Morocco? Police are investigating a possible sighting of missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann in the North African country. Mari Olli, 45, who lives in Fuengirola on Spain's Costa del Sol, was on holiday in Marrakech a week ago when she saw the child she thinks Madeleine. She didn't come forward then because she was unaware of the missing four year old Maddie but she says she is 99.9 percent certain it was Madeleine McCann.

Madeleine McCann Spotted in Morocco? Woman '99.9 Percent Sure'

This is London UK reports that Norwegian Ms. Olli, 45, made the sighting over a week ago but did not realize its possible significance until she returned home with her British husband. She said: "I didn't know anything about Madeleine's disappearance at the time, but now I'm more and more sure that the girl I saw was her."

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According to the report the incident happened at around 10am on Wednesday, May 9, at a petrol station next to the Ibis Palmeraie Hotel on the outskirts of Marrakech. Ms. Olli said: "My husband was filling the car, and I went in the shop to buy some water. That's when I saw her - my attention was drawn straight to her.

"She was a sweet, blonde-haired girl with a very cute face. She was wearing blue pajamas with a little pink-and-white pattern, maybe flowers, on her top." Ms. Ollie said the whole scene was surreal and she was concerned for the still unidentified girl.

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"She was standing alone with a man about a meter from her. She looked sad and a little lost. She looked so alone, I wanted to carry her or something, she said. "It struck me as a very unusual situation. It was very strange to see a little girl with light skin and very, very blonde hair standing alone in Morocco."

"If you're with a small child you would normally hold her in your arms tight. But the man didn't look like her father."