‘She would never leave the tent’: mother of Cleo Smith speaks of disappearance from WA campsite

Ellie Smith says she woke to find her four-year-old daughter and her sleeping bag missing from their campsite near Carnarvon

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The mother of Cleo Smith says she woke to find the tent open and her daughter missing, along with her sleeping bag, on the morning the four-year-old vanished from a popular Western Australian campsite.

Ellie Smith said she had barely slept since her daughter's disappearance and called for Cleo's safe return after the search entered its fourth day.