The family of a teenager who died in Malaysia have said they are hoping they will soon "have more answers to our many questions" concerning the death of their daughter.
Nora Quoirin's family said their eldest child had died in "extremely complex circumstances", adding that they are "struggling to understand the events" of the last 10 days.
The family issued a new statement yesterday, a day after the Malaysian authorities ruled the schoolgirl, who had travelled to the country with her family on holiday, had most likely starved to death after being lost in dense jungle for more than a week.
Nora Quoirin, who was travelling on an Irish passport, was reported missing from her bedroom at the Dunsun Eco Resort, an hour from Kuala Lumpur, on the morning of Sunday August 4.
The vulnerable teenager had arrived at the rainforest resort with her parents Meabh, who is from Belfast, and Sebastien, who is French, and two younger siblings, Innes (12) and Maurice (9), the day before.
A huge search operation was mounted, including police, forest trackers, helicopters, drones and sniffer dogs.
On Tuesday a team of volunteer hikers found Nóra's unclothed body near a stream on an inaccessible palm oil plantation just over a mile from the resort where she had been staying.
She was discovered in plain sight in an area that had previously and repeatedly been searched by rescuers.
Those who found the schoolgirl, who was born with brain defect holoprosencephaly, described how she looked as if she were sleeping and had her head on her hands when found.
On Thursday, Malaysian police revealed a post-mortem examination had found that the teenager, who had learning difficulties as a result of her medical condition, had died as a result of "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."
They added that for the "time being" there was "no element of abduction or kidnapping."
The authorities said further analysis is due to be carried out on samples taken from the teenager's body.
However, the schoolgirl's family, who believe their daughter was abducted, said in a statement yesterday the "initial post-mortem results have given some information that help us to understand Nora's cause of death.
"But our beautiful, innocent girl died in extremely complex circumstances and we are hoping that soon we will have more answers to our many questions. We are struggling to understand the events of the last 10 days".
The family also thanked the Malaysian authorities "for their ongoing support and cooperation with international governments and police as the criminal and missing persons investigations continue".
The family added that they "will be bringing Nóra home where she will finally be laid to rest, close to her loving families in France and Ireland".
The Lucie Blackman Trust, who are supporting the family, said an ongoing investigation in France into what happened to Nora would "remain underway as is standard practice in overseas cases involving French citizens".
The organisation said a police hotline "remains open and the family are still seeking any information from the public that can help to provide clarity on the events of the last 10 days".
The Trust said it would continue to support the family "with practical support such as repatriation" and revealed that "no payments were made in respect of the reward in connection with the discovery of the Nora's body".
Meanwhile, it was reported yesterday that Malaysian villagers had spotted a "white girl" swimming in a river near the resort where Nora Quoirin vanished, a day after she disappeared.
A Malaysian police spokesman told Sky News that the man who saw the girl "was riding a motorcycle [when he saw this]. He did not take a photo as he was passing by but we are checking".
