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Four missing children found
• 31 May 2007 •
IN two separate cases, the police found four children who went missing last week in Portugal. The first case was reported by a children’s home in Lisbon which alerted the police following the disappearance of a 10-year-old girl who apparently had escaped from the institution.
The girl was found just a few hours later in the Algarve. She had taken a bus from Lisbon to Armação de Pera was taken to the police station by the bus driver, who saw nobody was waiting for her, although she had told him her aunt would be meeting her off the bus. She was later returned to the children’s home in Lisbon.
The second case took place in Mem Martins, near Lisbon. Two boys and a girl, aged between 12 and 15, left home in the morning to go to school but never arrived. That afternoon, the school's headmistress called their parents to inform them that their children had not turned up.
Classmates told the police they had heard the children talking about a trip to Spain. An investigation carried out by the GNR in co-operation with the Judicial Police resulted in the runaway youngsters being found near Tomar.
According to the latest data released, since the beginning of 2007, 63 children under 12 years of age have been reported missing. The Judicial Police states that most of these cases have been solved, but admits that investigations are still under way to try to find the whereabouts of 54 youngsters under the age of 18. |  Return to Top
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