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Search underway for missing girl

Praneeta Prakash Multimedia Journalist [email protected]

January 7, 2024 9:30 am

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The search will continue today for a 12-year-old girl who went missing at the Tuvuca Waters in Lau on Friday.

She was with 16 people on a boat that left Tuvuca Island on Friday morning for Tavunuku Island, and in the afternoon, the villagers received a call that the boat had capsized.

Three people drowned while she went missing.

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