NILAI: The local Orang Asli community is offering to use methods based on traditional beliefs to help find missing Franco-Irish teenager Nora Anne Quoirin.
The Tok Batin (headman) of Kampung Kolam Air Pantai, Ali Ngogor, however, said: “We have not done the ceremony (for the search) yet, but we will try according to our customs.
“But, whether our efforts will be successful or not is in the hands of God. We can only try.
“As to the methods, I cannot go into details. They are secret. Our people will help in the search together with the authorities,” he told reporters here today.
He said none of his people had come across the 15-year-old girl.
“Day and night we have been looking for her with help from the others, but so far nothing,” he said.
The Tok Batin of Kampung Ngoi Ngoi, Junus Jingin, said his people were also willing to help find Nora.
“We sympathise with her family because we can understand the pain when a loved one goes missing.
“We will try to help using our own rituals,” he said.
Lenggeng assemblyman Suhaimi Kassim urged the Orang Asli to contact the authorities immediately if they find her.
Nora, who suffers from learning disabilities, arrived with her family from London on Saturday Aug 3) for a two-week holiday.
The family realised she was missing at 8am the next day.
Despite a massive search and rescue operation entering its seventh day today, there have been no signs of her.
Media personnel from all over the world are now in the area to provide press coverage. - Bernama