McCann family plays down sighting of Madeleine

MADELEINE MCCANN’S family has played down a possible sighting of the missing child in India.

Local police are said to be investigating after a British woman spotted a girl who appeared to resemble Madeleine in a market in the city of Leh in northern India on Friday night.

A French woman and a Belgian man with the girl insisted they were her biological parents but police took their passports to check, the Chandigarh Tribune newspaper reported. It was reported police have taken swabs from the girl for a DNA test