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Australian police find 4-year-old Cleo Smith safe, 18 days after she went missing

Cleo Smith went missing from her family's camping tent more than two weeks ago. Police rescued her from a locked house in an early-morning raid that left some officers "openly crying with relief."
Cleo Smith, 4, is safe in a hospital in Carnarvon, Australia, on Wednesday. Police rescued her in an early morning house raid more than two weeks after she first went missing.

Australian police have rescued Cleo Smith, a 4-year-old girl who went missing from her family's camping tent more than two weeks ago in a disappearance that gripped the nation.

She was found "alive and well" and has since been reunited with her parents, said Deputy Commissioner Col Blanch of the Western Australia Police Force. He

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