Hong Kong police have launched a search in Lion Rock Country Park for a teenage girl who has been missing for a week after new leads suggested she went there.
Daisy Kwok Oi-kwan, 18, went missing after she was last seen in a shopping centre on Junction Road in Lok Fu on July 14, two days before the release of the results of the university entrance exams, which she was supposed to take but did not.
Her family reported her missing to police. In a development on Tuesday, police reviewed CCTV footage and found that she was last seen heading uphill towards the country park.
The authorities are searching the site to locate the missing person. The operation was continuing on Tuesday evening.
Kwok, a resident of Mei Foo Sun Chuen private estate in Lai Chi Kok, was last seen wearing a light blue short-sleeved top, long black pants, white trainers and black-rimmed glasses, and carrying a red backpack, according to security camera images taken inside a lift.
She is about 1.7 metres (five feet, seven inches) tall, weighs 55kg (121lbs) and is of medium build. She has long black hair tied in a ponytail and a mole on the left side of her chin.
The girl, who was supposed to sit the Diploma of Secondary Education exams this year, had suffered emotional issues and was taking a break from school, the Post learned.
Anyone who knows of her whereabouts or who may have seen her is urged to contact the regional missing persons unit of Kowloon West on 3661 8036 or 9020 6542. - SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
