Missing 12-year-old British girl found safe at Yokohama police box

A 12-year-old British girl, Carmelita Lakdesha Paul, who went missing while travelling in Japan with her family has been found safe. According to SoraNews24, she was reported missing by her mother on August 13 after the family awoke and realised she was gone.

The girl had been staying with her family in a private rental property in Minami-Kamata, a neighbourhood in Tokyo's Ota Ward, after arriving in Japan on July 21. Through surveillance footage, police traced her whereabouts to Yokohama Station in Kanagawa Prefecture on the morning of her disappearance.

Carmelita was found at a police box in Yokohama, and had spent time at an Internet cafe while visiting anime-related locations. She had expressed a strong desire to visit Yokohama, known as a holy site for anime, according to Tokyo Reporter.

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