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Police launch urgent search for missing 'high risk' teenage girl

Cops have urged the public to reach out if they had any information about the girl who is thought to be in the Gants Hill Area.

Police launch urgent search for missing 'high risk' teenage girl

Police have launched a hunt for a missing teenage girl considered 'high risk' and appealed to people to help in the search mission.

Tania Abbas, 17, went missing from Ilford and there is considerable concern for her safety, MyLondon reported.


The girl is thought to be in the Gants Hill Area and Barking and Dagenham Police said she is a "high risk missing person".

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The cops have urged the public to contact them if they had any information about the girl or might have spotted her.

"High risk missing person - have you seen Tania Abbas (DOB 02/02/2005) possibly in the Gants Hill area, we are concerned for her safety," the police statement read.

Anybody having any information is urged to call 999 quoting 22MIS036292.

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