KARACHI: Two young girls who went missing from Karachi have been traced hundreds of miles away in Lahore, police said on Monday.

Karachi police confirmed that the girls had been found in Lahore and a team of Karachi police would soon leave to bring them back home. They said the two girls, 14-year-old Kinza and her friend Naila, unhappy with their families left their homes as per their plan. Before fleeing their homes, they collected information about Lahore-bound different trains, the police added.

Kinza’s father Muhammad Junaid told police that Naila came to their home and then the two friends went outside to play but did not return. The two friends study together in Government Millat School, he added. The father lodged a kidnapping case in Zaman Town Police Station.