The Irish embassy will be assisting the Quoirin family to prepare documentation for the repatriation of Nora’s body.
Malaysia’s Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail met the family of the 15-year-old at The Dusun resort this morning.
The family had planned a two-week holiday at the remote location, south east of Kuala Lumpur.
Meanwhile, Nora’s grandfather believes that Nora would not have wandered to the waterfall herself.
Sylvian Quoirin told the Irish Times that he believed someone placed Nora’s body where she was found.
He said the theory that Nora wandered off was ‘absurd’.
“Can you imagine her walking 2.5km, naked and barefoot, over rocks, in the middle of the night? For me, that’s absurd,” he told the newspaper.
Meanwhile, according to the New Straits Times, rescuers faced a ‘real challenge’ retrieving her body.
Four-wheel-drives were used by search and rescue teams to travel to the scene.
However, the newspaper reports that the tracks became too narrow for the vehicles and the team had to continue on foot, ‘walking another 500m along slippery and steep slopes, made more treacherous by roots and stones.’
A team member said the rescuers had to ‘wade through two deep streams.’
The New Straits Times also reports that the rescuers had planned to carry her body out of the jungle. However, the body ended up being winched out of the jungle area via a helicopter as ‘carrying her body through the treacherous terrain would have taken some time.’