11 unaccompanied missing African migrants in south Cyprus may never be found

Eleven underage migrant in southern Cyprus that were declared missing between 2019 and 2022 may never be found, said Greek Cypriot police sources.

According to report by Philenews, the underage asylum seekers, all from Africa were all staying at Pournara First Reception Centre in Kokkinotrimithia, off Nicosia, before going missing.

Police said missing children who leave a shelter or whatever are usually located within 24 hours because they don’t go far away and there is information about where they could take refuge.

But things are different with unaccompanied minors although efforts to trace them are zealous because of the special circumstances.

In fact, locating them is difficult to almost impossible with authorities not excluding the possibility that these children have already left  Cyprus with a passport they were provided with.

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