Missing 13-year-old Assamese girl spotted by auto drivers in Kanyakumari, police widen search

Thiruvananthapuram: The 13-year-old Assamese girl, who left her home in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday, was spotted by some autorickshaw drivers in Tamil Nadu's Kanyakumari on Wednesday. The girl's father had earler identified a photograph clicked by a passenger on the Kanyakumari-bound train. 

The Kerala police are in Kanyakumari as part of a widespread search is on for the girl who left home after an alleged altercation with her mother. The girl, Thasmid Thamasum, who speaks only Assamese had been living with her parents and two younger siblings at a rented house in Kazhakkoottam for a month.

She was onboard Bengaluru-Kanyakumari express train on Tuesday. She boarded the train from Thampanoor at 1pm. A passenger, who felt suspicious, had clicked the girl's photograph before leaving the train in Neyyatinkara. She contacted the police after 3am on noticing the girl's photograph on news.  "According to my friends, the girl did not get off the train in Parassala either. I did not talk to her as my friends disssuaded me from doing so. She seemed upset and had Rs 40 and a bag with her," the passenger said.

According to the police, the girl quarrelled with a younger sibling after 8 am when the parents were not home. The mother scolded her on returning home around 9.45 am and went back to work. The girl is understood to have left the house shortly afterwards. The girl took a bag and some clothes, the police said.

"She left home with a bag which contained Rs 50. I had scolded her for fighting with her sibling," Thasmid Thamasum mother told Manorama News on Wednesday.

The parents informed the police only around 4 pm on Tuesday. The police sought the help of a translator to interact with the girl's parents. The couple has four children, including a son who works in Chennai. 
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