Teenage girl reported missing in Kuantan


KUANTAN: A teenager has been reported missing, believed to have run away from her family home in Taman Mahkota Permai here on Tuesday (May 6) morning.

The girl, Putri Alya Husna Mohd Jabar, 15, was reported missing at 3am on Tuesday by her father when he did not see her at home.

Kuantan police chief ACP Wan Zahari Wan Busu said the father reported last seeing his daughter, who was dining in the house, at 10.30pm on Monday.

"According to him (father), he and his wife had never had any problems or quarrelled with the victim and that the girl had left the house before, but returned home," he said in a statement on Wednesday.

He said the girl did not have any close friends since the family moved from Taman Tas to Taman Mahkota Permai and she had also not enrolled at her new school.

He said the girl did not have a mobile phone with her because it was confiscated by her father.

She is slim, about 160cm to 165cm tall and has straight waist-length black hair down to his waist, he said. - Bernama

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