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PETALING JAYA, Jan 23 (Bernama) -- Two weeks after five-year-old Sharlinie Mohd Nashar was reported missing, her appearance may have changed.
This possibility was based on other missing children who were later found, Petaling Jaya OCPD ACP Arjunaidi Mohamad told reporters Wednesday.
Another five-year-old -- Muhammad Nazrin Shamsul Ghazali or Yin -- had his head shaved by a Myanmar couple who took care of him for 15 days before returning the boy to his family in April last year.
In September, the parents of Nurin Jazlin Jazimin, eight, could not identify their daughter's body because her hair had been cut short besides other changes in her appearance.
Sharlinie was abducted while playing with her elder sister at a playground near their house in Taman Medan on Jan 9.
Arjunaidi said the police were still trying to find Sharlinie including by making house-to-house checks and so far, over 3,000 houses in Petaling Jaya had been screened since the move began on Monday.
"We will try to inspect 1,000 houses a day. If we are suspicious of a house that we have gone into, we will make another visit," he said.
The house-to-house checks involved the police's General Operatons Force and covered all housing areas and foreign workers quarters, Arjunaidi said.
A police helicopter was also put on standby to help trace locations which which could give leads to the police in the investigation, he added.
Asked whether the police or Sharlinie's parents still received false information through phone calls and text messages, he said: "Not anymore, but we still receive many information from the public who have taken part in the search effort."
-- BERNAMA
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