A Belgian woman has spoken of the moment she spotted a child who looked like Madeleine McCann in Brussels just days after she went missing.
Line Compere recounted how she saw the girl with an Eastern European couple on a tram heading for the city's train station.
Her sighting was one of several potential leads revealed in the Portuguese police case files. Detectives are now looking at more than 100 in Belgium alone.
Miss Compere, 31, spoke out again yesterday after it emerged British police were tipped-off Madeleine may have been snatched for a paedophile ring in Belgium.
'I made the sighting on a tram. We were on the Number 18 tram from Porte d'Anderlecht going towards the Gare du Midi,' she said.
'They got off and then got on to the number 51 tram. She really looked like Madeleine, but her hair was different.
'In the photos I saw of Madeleine, she had a fringe, but this girl did not. She was dressed all in pink and was in a pushchair.
'I was standing close to her and saw her eyes - they were blue. But I did not notice any marking on her eye.
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'She was with a man and a woman, both between 35 and 40 years old. They were white but had dark hair and looked Eastern European.
'They were both dressed in dark clothes. The girl looked very different to the adults.'
She added: 'I was interviewed once by Belgian police who launched an inquiry, and I gave them all the details I knew.'
The report was passed on to the Portuguese police but it is unclear what action was taken to follow it up.
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According to the Portuguese police case files, Ms Compere said she saw the girl 12 days after Madeleine disappeared in Praia da Luz on May 3 last year.
She was suspicious because the couple with the youngster did not look like her, appeared to be speaking a different language and did not seem to know her well.
At the time, she had never seen a picture of Madeleine but later that day was shown a photograph of the missing girl and was struck by the similarity, according to the files.In her interview on June 1 last year, she told police: 'When I saw the photo in question, it immediately jumped out to me that there was a big resemblance to the little girl on the tram.'