Possible Sighting of Missing Maddy

LONDON, Nov 2, 2007 — -- There have been new reports of sightings of missing 4-year-old Madeleine McCann in a Moroccan town, six months after the British youngster disappeared from the Portuguese hotel where her family was staying.

A British newspaper today carried reports of a woman, Naoul Mahli, who reportedly saw a blond little girl with the same distinctive eye features as Madeleine being dragged into taxi by a Moroccan woman. The child bore signs of bruising on her forehead.

The London Mirror recounted that Mahli tried to share the taxi with the woman and child but was pushed away by the other woman, who then urged the taxi to drive off. Mahli quickly took a business card from the taxi driver before he sped off. She then called the taxi company, and a representative told her that the driver had taken the woman on an 180-mile journey through the Rif Mountains before reaching the port town of al Housima, where he dropped the woman and child in the middle of the town center.

In an exclusive interview with ABC News' Chris Cuomo today, Clarence Mitchell, a spokesman for the McCann family, explained why he believes the details of this latest sightings are worthy of attention.

"Anything that has a degree of detail to that extent -- and obviously we have highlighted Madeleine's eye as a very distinguishing mark -- anything that suggests that that is a factor in a particular sighting is worthy of our attention and very rapid attention," Mitchell said on "Good Morning America."

Madeleine McCann went missing May 3, a few days before her fourth birthday, from a holiday apartment in the Portuguese beach town of Praia da Luz. A mass investigation and media campaign has since been launched to trace every potential sighting that has been reported, with particular emphasis on Portugal, Spain and Morocco.

"Because of the emphasis we've placed in Morocco and our investigators on the ground there, sightings like this, even if they are a few weeks out of date, do get a lot of attention and that's essentially what's happened with this sighting today," Mitchell said. "We have teams of private investigators working across the region -- North Africa, Spain, and assisting the police investigation in Portugal itself, and that's apart from the massive police network that's in place and has been looking for her in the past six months."

"We feel positive but of course, we're still waiting for that breakthrough," he said.