Police arriving at the Kowloon City estate to investigate the case of the missing girl. [UPDATE - 3.32pm, September 24]
A police search for a six-year-old girl who had been missing since Wednesday afternoon has ended after the girl was found safe today in another block of the estate where she lived.
Around noon today, scores of officers from the Police Tactical Unit mounted a search with plainclothes and uniformed officers throughout the estate.
But this afternoon, Sze was found safe in Mun Ching House, another block of the estate. Police said an investigation into the circumstances leading to her overnight disappearance is continuing.
Police are searching for a six-year-old girl who has been missing since yesterday afternoon.
The girl, named Pinky Sze Wai-kiu, lives in Hong Ching House of Kowloon City’s Kai Ching Estate. She went downstairs in her school uniform to play at a park after school at around 4pm yesterday.
The girl is a Primary Two pupil at the Kowloon Women's Welfare Club Li Ping Memorial School in Yau Ma Tei.
A staff member said police told the school she had returned home after school yesterday afternoon and went out before she went missing.
According to the police, Sze is around 1.2 metres in height.She is thin, has short black hair, and was wearing a blue-collared white sports T-shirt, black shorts and white sport shoes.
Anyone who has information about the girl or saw her before she went missing should contact the police on 2798 3300 or 2798 3312.