Search for missing 5 year old Kumanjayi Little Baby has ended in tragedy.

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this story includes the name and image of an Indigenous person who has passed away.

Alice Springs residents place flowers on the gates and fences surrounding the Old Timers Camp before joining a procession to the home of five-year-old Kumanjayi Little Baby. Source: AAP / RHETT HAMMERTON/AAPIMAGE

For five days, hundreds of volunteers and police scoured the desert country surrounding Alice Springs, looking for a missing five year old.

Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro says the entire Northern Territory is mourning the family's loss of Kumanjayi Little Baby.

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