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Missing schoolgirl 'found alive' Missing schoolgirl 'found alive'
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Missing West Yorkshire schoolgirl Shannon Matthews has been found alive, it has been reported.Missing West Yorkshire schoolgirl Shannon Matthews has been found alive, it has been reported.
West Yorkshire Police are yet to confirm that she has been found but said they were looking reports the nine-year-old had been found. West Yorkshire Police are yet to confirm the news but said they were looking into reports the nine-year-old had been found.
She was last seen at Westmoor Junior School, Dewsbury on 19 February. She was last seen leaving Westmoor Junior School in Dewsbury on 19 February.
The force said the operation was the biggest missing person's case it had undertaken since the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper.
Unconfirmed reports say she has been found in nearby Lidgate Gardens in Batley Carr.Unconfirmed reports say she has been found in nearby Lidgate Gardens in Batley Carr.
West Yorkshire Police said they were looking into reports that Shannon has been found alive. Shannon's aunt Amanda Hyett said the schoolgirl's mother Karen Matthews had been driven away by police from the family home shortly before 1400 GMT.
Earlier this week mother-of-seven Mrs Matthews, 32, said she believed someone she knows had snatched her daughter to hurt her.
Mrs Matthews said: "She got abducted. That's all I can say."
More than 200 officers and 60 detectives have been involved in the search, which police said amounted to 10% of West Yorkshire Police's operational strength.
Officers have searched nearly 3,000 residential and commercial premises in the hunt for the schoolgirl.
The police's focus on the hunt for Shannon has always focused on the local community.