Belgium checks possible sighting of Madeleine

BRUSSELS - Belgian authorities are conducting DNA tests on a bottle and a straw after a possible sighting of missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann last weekend.

A woman called police in the eastern town of Tongeren near the Dutch border on Saturday after seeing a couple with a small girl at a roadside cafe.

"She has considerable dealings with children and she was convinced the girl was Madeleine," a prosecution spokeswoman said. "There is a bottle and straw that the girl probably drank from and we are testing them."

The couple were described as a Dutch-speaking man of about 40 and a English-speaking woman of around 25. Tongeren legal authorities have drawn up photo-fit pictures of the pair.

The results of the DNA test should be known next week.

Madeleine went missing on a family holiday to Portugal on May 3, since when there have been dozens of possible sightings.

- REUTERS