Five-year-old Sharon was last seen on Saturday at an Aboriginal town camp near Alice Springs.

A 5-year-old girl who went missing from a central Australian Indigenous community over the weekend was abducted, authorities said Monday.

Police say a body, believed to be that of the missing five-year-old, was found by search and rescue teams on Thursday, 5km from where she was last seen alive

Five-year-old Sharon was last seen on Saturday at an Aboriginal town camp near Alice Springs.

A body police believes belongs to the 5-year-old girl missing five days in central Australia has been found, as police hunt a suspect.

The girl's death sparked an outbreak of violence in the central Australian town from where she disappeared.