Police have received a total of 12 reports from persons who have alleged to have sighted missing Madeleine McCann in Malta.
The first report of a sighting of the missing girl reached the Maltese Police on the 27th May. A Maltese national claimed the girl had been seen in Valletta in the company of a man one week earlier.
A second report was filed on the 17th June, when two British women claimed to have seen a girl remarkably similar to Madeleine McCann near the Floriana bus terminus. The girl was seen in company of a middle-aged woman. The two boarded a bus headed for Qawra and alit it once they reached St Pauls Bay.
Following media reports pertaining to the case which were published in the media on Thursday, Police received seven further reports of alleged sightings. Police said that the reports were given by six women, one man and an anonymous person. The person or persons allegedly accompanying the child differed in the reports. The girl was allegedly seen in Valletta, Sliema, Mdina and Marsascala in the days and weeks leading up to Thursday, 21st June.
The latest report was made on Friday when an anonymous caller told Police that the 4-year-old girl might have been seen in Baħar iċ-Ċagħaq on Thursday. A further report, also filed on Friday, claimed that a similar looking girl was also seen in Marsascala about a fortnight ago.