The autopsy of Franco-Irish teenager Nora Quoirin, who was found dead after missing a Malaysian hotel complex on Tuesday, seems to rule out the criminal track. The girl died from internal bleeding due to lack of food, the local police said Thursday, August 15, leaving the trail of a criminal act.

Fifteen-year-old Nora Quoirin suffered "extreme stress" and "hunger" and succumbed to "gastrointestinal bleeding," Mohamad Mat Yusop, chief of state police, told reporters. Negeri Sembilan, south of Kuala Lumpur. "For now, there is no suspicion of a criminal act," he added on the basis of the findings of the autopsy.

The teenager, suffering from a slight mental handicap, disappeared on the night of August 3-4, just after arriving with her family living in London, for a holiday in the resort Dusun Resort.

It is located about 70 km south of the capital, on the edge of the jungle near Seremban, the capital of the state of Negeri Sembilan. A window had been found open in the pavilion where the family resided.

No evidence of sexual assault

The teenager is likely dead two or three days after her disappearance, said Mohamad Mat Yusop. "There is no indication that she was raped," he said.

His bare corpse was discovered Tuesday in a small stream at the bottom of a ravine in the jungle about 2.5 km from the resort, after ten days of intense research that mobilized hundreds of people, helicopters and dogs.

Nora Quoirin had holoprosencephaly, which meant she had a smaller brain than normal, limited speech, and was only able to write a few words.

On August 9, before the discovery of the body, the public prosecutor of Paris had opened an investigation.

With AFP