A 15-year-old girl who went missing in Malaysia has been found dead from intestinal bleeding.

Nora Quoirin was believed to have been abducted when she first went missing from the Dusun jungle resort on August 4. 2019, while on vacation with her family.

The London teen's parents, Meabh and Sebastien Quoirin, told authorities that Nora had been born with a brain defect, holoprosencephaly, a cephalic disorder. Her condition left her "vulnerable" her parents say, limiting her independence and affecting her ability to walk. They did not believe it was possible nor like her to have wandered off alone.

But now that her body has been recovered, police in Malaysia say that there is no evidence to support that an abduction or kidnapping took place in Nora's case "for the time being."

Her body was found about 2.6 kilometers from where she and her family had been staying. Beside a small stream, she was found unclothed in an area that rescuers had previously searched.

Following an autopsy of Nora's body, police believe the teen had been dead for two or three days by the time she was found last Tuesday. Her death was caused by an intestinal bleed, which could be attributed to starvation and stress, police say.

Police chief for the Negeri Sembilan state, Mohamad Mat Yusop stated that the post-mortem examination had found no evidence of kidnapping or rape.

"For the time being, there is no element of abduction or kidnapping," he said. "The cause of death was upper gastrointestinal bleeding due to duodenal ulcer, complicated with perforation ... it could be due to a lack of food for a long period of time and due to prolonged stress."

Bruises were also found on Nora's legs, though Yusop said that these could not have caused death.

Nora's parents have responded, saying that she "truly touched the world" and calling her "the truest, most precious girl."

Mourning in Belfast took place with a book of condolence opened at City Hall, signed first by Lord Mayor of Belfast John Finucane who called the situation "heartbreaking." Services were also held in the south Belfast church where Nora was baptized and her grandparents attended, as well as at St. Bede's Catholic Church in Clapham.