This is the remote and barren Moroccan town that could hold the key to the whereabouts of Madeleine McCann.
Beggars lie in the shade outside the run-down cafes and shops that line the dusty streets of Karia Ba Mohamed, which nestles in the mountains near the city of Fes.
Far from the tourist traps of the country's north coast, Karia is a working-class farming town where Western faces are rarely seen.
Yet this shabby enclave is now the focus of the hunt for four-year-old Madeleine. Detectives from the Metodo 3 investigating team - the Spanish private detective agency hired at great expense by the McCanns to trace their daughter - claim they were phoned by a schools inspector from Karia, who said he had potentially crucial information.
He told them he had seen Madeleine, and his story is said to be backed up by several others.
The trail to Karia began a month ago when Naoual Malhi, a Spanish woman of Moroccan origin, claimed she saw a child with a striking resemblance to Madeleine in the Moroccan coastal resort of Findeq. (Daily Mail)
