The search-and-rescue operations will not be called off until after the postmortem, said local police chief Mohamad Mat Yusof.
Shirley Yap, a member of the hiking group that found Nora’s body, had said before setting off that they planned to search for her around the waterfall in the Pantai Hills, about 40 miles south-east of capital Kuala Lumpur
She said: “We had heard she was excited about seeing a waterfall when she arrived in the resort.
“We are going to look around that area and follow the stream down the mountain.”
The group, led by Kenny Chan, trekked through “hilly and difficult” terrain not accessible to vehicles, around a an hour and 20 minutes’ walk from the resort.
They reported their discovery to the police’s search hotline at 1.57pm.
The area had already been covered by the extensive search for Nora, who went missing on August 3, just hours after arriving at the Dusun Rainforest Resort with her parents and siblings Innes, 12, and Maurice, eight.
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Before Nora was found her parents had a meeting with a Catholic priest to pray for divine intervention.
Meabh, 45, and Sebastien, 47, met Father George Harrison after a service at the Church of Visitation in Seremban, ten miles from their holiday home.
He told the Mirror: “The parents came to our mass and to pray afterwards. I said a prayer for them afterwards and I blessed them.
Rescuers 'may have missed' body of teen during first search of jungle area