A total of 422 youngsters aged between 13-15, most of them girls, were reported to have gone missing last year, according to the Mirror Foundation.

Speaking at a press conference on the situation of missing youth last year at the Police General Hospital, Mr Ekkalak Lumchomkhae, head of the foundation’s missing persons’ information centre, said altogether 422 youngsters were reported to have gone missing and, of these, the number of girls was three times higher than boys’.

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By Thai PBS