PRAIA LUZ (Portugal): More than 58 million hits were registered by Friday on a website set up for the four-year-old British girl who disappeared two weeks ago in Portugal, as police there struggled to build a case.
“Keep looking!” implored a message on www.findmadeleine.com, which was launched on Wednesday as the hunt for Madeleine McCann snowballed into an international cause. Pledges of donations were also flooding into a fund launched with the website to help her parents Gerry and Kate McCann continue the search for their daughter.
Leading businessmen, sportsmen and individuals had by the weekend offered rewards totalling more than 2.5 million pounds (5 million dollars, 3.6 million euros) for her safe return. Video images of Madeleine will be broadcast at Saturday's FA Cup final at London's Wembley Stadium between Manchester United and Chelsea before 90,000 football fans. Millions more will watch it on television.
Madeleine disappeared from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, in Portugal's southernmost Algarve province, on May 3. She had been left with her two-year-old twin siblings while their parents went to a nearby restaurant.—AFP
