Parents realise child forgotten at Croatia rest area after driving 200km
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Police found the 11-year-old girl, who was unharmed but scared, after they were contacted by a rest-area employee.
PHOTO: REUTERS
ZAGREB – Parents travelling in Croatia on Aug 2 realised after driving 200km that they had left their 11-year-old daughter at a highway rest area, police said.
An employee at the Rascane rest area in southern Croatia informed the police that a woman had called saying her child, a foreign citizen, was missing, according to a police statement that did not specify the child’s nationality.
Officers found the girl, who was unharmed but scared and crying, at the rest area.
The frightened parents arrived a few hours later.
The mother said that they had been travelling in a group with several cars, and had assumed her daughter was in one of them.
No charges were filed, the police statement said.
Croatia is visited by millions of tourists annually who flock mainly to its Adriatic coast. AFP
